Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
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| Title | : | Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting (National Gallery of Art, Washington) |
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (180 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300116772 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2006-07-28 |
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The first three decades of the sixteenth century represent, visually and intellectually, the most exciting phase of the Renaissance in Venicewhen Giorgione and the young Titian, together with Sebastiano del Piombo, Palma Vecchio, and others, were working alongside the older master Giovanni Bellini. This beautiful book presents an innovative survey of sixty Venetian Renaissance paintings of the caliber of Bellini and Titian’s Feast of the Gods in Washington and Giorgione’s Laura and Three Philosophers in Vienna.Unlike previous surveys of the period, this book refrains from dividing up the artists represented and instead explores the interrelationships between them. Through a series of thematic sections, the authors trace the rise of secular subjectspastoral landscapes, female nudes, and romantic portraitsand the transformation of religious ones as well as innovations in style and technique. Cutting across genres, the book also focuses on the overarching
Editorial : About the AuthorAuthors include David Alan Brown, curator of Italian painting at the NationalGallery of Art; Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, curator of Italian Renaissance painting at the Kunsthistorisches Museum; Jaynie Anderson, head of the School of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne; Deborah Howard, head of the Department of the History of Art, University of Cambridge; Peter Humfrey, professor at the School of Art History, University of St. Andrews; and Mauro Lucco, professor at the Università degli Studi di Bologna.
The author's tone is laidback and uplifting, so it's an enjoyable read.. This book gives a push in the right direction for those who think/know they can be creative but don't know what steps to take or what direction to go.. The illustrations and commentary are wonderful. If you haven't already read a lot of said books then this is a good one to start with. This remarkable show (and catalogue) is a summary of Venetian painting from 1500 to 1530, allowing a side by side comparison of the work of Bellini, Giorgione, and Titian in what was one of Venice's astonishing high water marks of artistic creativity.
Once you have been bitten by the bug, these paintings are with you for good. This book touched on plenty of relevant things for me as an artist. The essays are interesting, but my favorite is one I almost missed after the technical photographs of xrays in the back: an essay which describes how the Venetian painters were at a remarkable crossroads of shared experimentation in
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