Venetian school
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- Field of work
- oil painting
- Location
- Venice
- Image
- Veronese Allegory of Wisdom and Strength.jpg
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- significant person
- Giorgione
- topic's main category
- Category:Venetian school
- Commons category
- Venetian school
- has works in the collection
- Kunsthistorisches Museum
- time period
- 16th century
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Encyclopedic overview
Titian, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist c. 1515; this religious work also functions as an idealized portrait of a beauty, a Venetian genre developed by Titian, supposedly often using Venetian courtesans as models.
Venetian painting was a major force in Italian Renaissance painting and beyond. Beginning with the work of Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516) and his brother Gentile Bellini (c. 1429–1507) and their workshops, the major artists of the Venetian school included Giorgione (c. 1477–1510), Titian (c. 1489–1576), Tintoretto (1518–1594), Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) and Jacopo Bassano (1510–1592) and his sons. Considered to give primacy to colour over line, the tradition of the Venetian school contrasted with the Mannerism prevalent in the rest of Italy. The Venetian style exerted great influence upon the subsequent development of Western painting.
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