The Renaissance of Painting in Venice (Part II)
Dr. Rocky Ruggiero
The first two decades of the 16th century were an extraordinary time for Venetian painting. Artists such as Giovanni Bellini and Vittore Carpaccio, who had played vital roles in creating a Venetian school of painting, were still active. But a younger generation of artists with names such as Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese would entirely transform the Venetian early Renaissance into what Giorgio Vasari coined as “maniera moderna,” or what we call today, the High Renaissance. This course will trace the evolution of Venetian painting and its protagonists during the 16th century in order to better understand how the Venetian school of painting not only blossomed during this period but also emerged as the major rival of central Italian painting and its protagonists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
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LECTURE 1 "Giovanni Bellini and the Dawn of the High Renaissance in Venice"
During the 1480s and 90s, Giovanni Bellini’s style gradually transitioned away from a “Antonellesque” approach of tightly controlled brushwork to a bolder, more broken application of paint. Bellini’s late style would become the foundation for the next generation of Venetian painters such as Giorg...
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LECTURE 2 "Giorgione and the Poetry of Painting"
During the short decade-long career of Giorgione di Castelfranco, better known simply as “Giorgione,” Venetian painting would acquire a degree of visual sophistication unparalleled in Europe. The dominance of landscape, picturesque figures, and the prevalent mood of “poetic enchantment” introduce...
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LECTURE 3 "Young Titian"
Giorgio Vasari claimed at the beginning of his career, Titian’s work so closely resembled that of his master Giorgione that many people would mistake the work of the latter for the former. In fact, the numerous congruences of style and motif between the work of the two artists, have led to attrib...
