Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...illustrate the works of Raphael, Michael Angelo, and Leonardo da Vinci, while in the smaller gallery a selection from the designs of the earlier Italian masters will be found. This gallery contains also a few copies in water and oil color from portions of important examples of Florentine and Venetian painting, a few excellent copies from water color drawings by Turner, and a few facsimiles from typical examples of French manuscript illuminations of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. A collection of nearly fifteen thousand photographs will be made accessible to students in the photograph room as soon as the work...
...said that the mere copier of nature could do nothing good, and that the greatest artist is he who most appeals to the imagination. Reynolds did not follow in practice what he believed in theory. His happiest efforts are those in which he followed the precepts of Dutch and Venetian Schools...
...sixteenth century represents the climax of Italian art. During that period elegance, taste, and sensuousness in the highest degree were developed in the work of the Venetian painters, at the head of whom stand Titian, Gorgona, Tintoretto, and Verrezana. The doings of these four are of the greatest importance in the history of art, not only because of what they built up but because of what they pulled down. It was they who dealt the death blow to religion as the object of art. This does not mean that religious subjects were discarded by them, but that they sought...
...startling originality of conception. Throughout the work of Verrezana there is an underlying decorative motive. In pictures brilliant in color and elaborate in decoration, he portrays pomp and magnificence at its highest point, but with nothing trivial about it. He, Gorgona, Titian, and Tintoretto, are the illumination of Venetian...
Gentile de Fabriano is an artist of great repute at this period, and his personality is strongly impressed upon Venetian art. His most distinguished pupil was Bellini. The two Bellinis, father and son, lived and worked in Padua, and were influenced strongly by its art. Yet they are the real founders of Venetian art. Color is still predominant; hardness of line and statuesqueness of form melt away before its influence. Bellini attracts on account of his honest and earnest painting of saints and madonnas. His characters are dignified and possessed of angelic qualities. Truth and elegance mark his style...