Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto - the great
artists of the Renaissance in Venice. Add to them Vivarini, Cima,
Carpaccio, Palma Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto and Jacopo Bassano, and one
has an impressive catalogue of major artistic achievements.
Representatives of the golden age of Venetian painting, they
produced some of the most visually dazzling works in Western art.
This survey of the development of a distinctly Venetian tradition
in painting, from the mid-15th century to the end of the 16th
century, analyses the painters' works in terms of their pictorial
style, technique, subject matter, patronage and function. It also
sets the art against the background of the political, social and
religious conditions of Renaissance Venice. Together with brief
biographies of 36 leading painters, the book offers an accessible
introduction to the period, the place and its art - and, with the
benefit of being concise, it offers an overview that will readily
attract the general reader. (Kirkus UK)
The Renaissance was a golden age in the long history of Venetian
painting, and the art that came from Venice during that era
includes some of the most visually exciting works in the whole of
western art. This attractive book - a comprehensive account of
painting in Venice from Bellini to Titian to Tintoretto - is an
accessible introduction to the paintings of this period. Peter
Humfrey surveys the development of a distinctly Venetian artistic
tradition from the middle years of the fifteenth century to the end
of the sixteenth century. He discusses the work of Jacopo and
Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto as
well as the paintings of those less well known - such as the three
Vivarini, Cima, Carpaccio, Palma Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto and Jacopo
Bassano. Humfrey analyses these painters' works in terms of their
pictorial style, technique, subject matter, patronage and function.
He also sets the art against the background of the political,
social and religious conditions of Renaissance Venice, as outlined
in his Introduction. The book includes an appendix that provides
brief biographies of thirty-six of the most important painters
active in Renaissance Venice.
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