with Art Historian Donald Dwyer
Date: Monday, December 8
Time: 2:00 P.M.
The painters of High Renaissance Venice depict the worldly nature of a city of dazzling splendor. Her painters were famous for sensuous color, spectacular lighting, an almost pagan outlook. Giorione, earliest of the Venetians, praises the beauty of nature, woman, pleasure and created poetic idylls full of lush color and mystery. Titian, leading painter of the era, portrayed many subjects—from mythological scenes to portraits of citizens and royalty. He was celebrated for sumptuous textures, the use of canvas, oil colors, translucent glazes, and was recognized as a towering genius for all time. At the end of the 16th Century both Veronese and Tintoretto broke with High Renaissance Classicism to herald the dynamism of the Baroque. Veronese specialized in majestic pageantry, while Tintoretto favored slashing diagonals, intense emotion, dramatic lighting. An enriching journey through the glories of 16th Century Venetian art.