Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

Architecture: Venice Venice long had been a major Mediterranean coastal port and served as the gateway to the Orient. Reaching t ...

arranged the outbuildings in long, low wings branching out from the main building and enclosing a large rectangular court area. ...

later. Palladio’s design also created the illusion of three-dimensional depth, an effect intensified by the strong projection of ...

FEAST OF THE GODSIn painting Feast of the Gods (FIG. 22-34), Bellini drew from the work of one of his students, Giorgione da Cas ...

22-36Giorgione da Castelfranco,The Tempest, ca. 1510. Oil on canvas, 2 81 – 4  2  43 – 4 . Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice. ...

to convey light through color emerge in a major altarpiece,Assump- tion of the Virgin (FIG. 22-37), painted in oils for the main ...

PESARO MADONNATrained by both Bellini and Giorgione, Titian learned so well from them that even today scholars cannot concur abo ...

High and Late Renaissance 609 A n important change occurring in Titian’s time was the almost universal adoption of canvas, with ...

VENUS OF URBINOIn 1538, at the height of his powers, Ti- tian painted the so-called Venus of Urbino (FIG. 22-40) for Guido- bald ...

T he Renaissance art world was decidedly male-dominated. Few women could become professional artists because of the obstacles th ...

Mannerism The Renaissance style of Rome, Florence, and Venice dominated Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture for most o ...

acteristic of Mannerism’s early phase in painting. Christ’s descent from the cross and subsequent entombment had frequently been ...

Bronzino demonstrated the Mannerists’ fondness for learned alle- gories that often had lascivious undertones, a shift from the s ...

proud youth—a man of books and intellectual society, rather than a merchant or lowly laborer. His cool demeanor seems carefully ...

church of San Giorgio Maggiore (FIG. 22-32), the figures appear in a dark interior illuminated by a single light in the upper le ...

22-49Paolo Veronese,Triumph of Venice,ca. 1585. Oil on canvas, 29 8  19 . Ceiling of the Hall of the Grand Council, Doge’s P ...

CORREGGIO One painter who developed a unique personal style that is almost impossible to classify was Antonio Allegri, known as ...

22-52Giovanni da Bologna,Abduction of the Sabine Women, Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy, 1579–1583. Mar ...

620 Chapter 22 ITALY,1500 TO 1600 22-53Giulio Romano,interior courtyard facade of the Palazzo del Tè, Mantua, Italy, 1525–1535. ...

Renaissance master, working in a Mannerist mode, disposed will- fully and abruptly of classical architecture. Moreover, in the v ...