Venetian School

Examples of Venetian School in the following topics:

• Venice

  • Beginning with the workshop of Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516), major artists of the Venetian school included Giorgione (c. 1477–1510), Titian (1489–1576), Tintoretto (1518–1594), Veronese (1528–1588), and the Bassano family (1510–1592).
  • Bellini has been described as reaching the High Renaissance ideals; his work certainly expresses the key distinctive factors of the Venetian school.
  • The Venetian style is viewed as greatly influencing the subsequent development of painting.
  • Venetian painting was also influenced by Renaissance artists from other regions.
  • List the major artists of the Venetian school and the principal characteristics of their art

• The Venetian Painters of the High Renaissance

  • Giorgione, Titian, and Veronese were the preeminent Venetian painters of the High Renaissance.
  • Giorgione, Titian, and Veronese were the preeminent painters of the Venetian High Renaissance.
  • In particular, Giorgione, Titian, and Veronese follows the Venetian School's preference of color over disegno.
  • Tiziano Vecelli, or Titian (1490–1576), was arguably the most important member of the 16th century Venetian school, as well as one of the most versatile; he was equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects.
  • Summarize the impact of the paintings of Giorgione, Titian, and Veronese on art of the Venetian High Renaissance

• Oil Painting

  • Venice's unquestioned maritime authority led to peace for much of the fifteenth century and a rise of Venetian-style Renaissance art in the 1500s.
  • One of the most famous Venetian oil paintings is The Tempest (La Tempesta), painted in 1508 by Giorgione and commissioned by Venetian noble Gabriele Vendramin .
  • Giorgione's The Tempest is one of the most famous Venetian oil paintings of the 16th century.

• Spanish Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • Due to important economic and political links between Spain and the Netherlands (which included present-day Holland and Belgium) from the mid-15th century onwards, the early Renaissance in Spain was heavily influenced by Netherlandish painting, leading to the identification of a Hispano-Netherlandish school of painters.
  • Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco (1541–1614) "the Greek," was one of the most individualistic of the painters of the period, developing a strongly Mannerist style based on his origins in the post-Byzantine Cretan school, in contrast to the naturalistic approaches then predominant in Seville, Madrid, and elsewhere in Spain.
  • Many of his works reflect the silvery grays and strong colors of Venetian painters such as Titian, while adding strange elongations of figures, unusual lighting, disposing of perspective space, and filling the surface with very visible and expressive brushwork.

• Renaissance Architecture in Venice

  • Venetian Gothic architecture is a term given to a Venetian building style combining use of the Gothic lancet arch with Byzantine and Ottoman influences.
  • Describe the style of Venetian architecture during the Renaissance, and of Palladio in particular

• Palladio

  • All of his buildings are located in what was the Venetian Republic, but his teachings, summarized in the architectural treatise, The Four Books of Architecture, gained him wide recognition beyond Italy.
  • Palladio also established an influential new building format for the agricultural villas of the Venetian aristocracy.

• Islamic Glass Making

  • By about 1500, the Venetians were receiving large orders for mosque lamps..
  • By about 1500, the Venetians were receiving large orders for mosque lamps.

• Architecture in the High Renaissance

  • All of his buildings are located in what was the Venetian Republic, but his teachings, summarized in the architectural treatise, The Four Books of Architecture, gained him wide recognition beyond Italy.
  • Palladio established an influential new building format for the agricultural villas of the Venetian aristocracy.

• Kano School Painting in the Edo Period

  • The Kanō school with its naturalistic style was the dominant style of the Edo period (1603 - 1868).
  • The Kanō school (狩) was the dominant style of painting during the Edo period.
  • Kanō Motonobu, a Japanese painter and member of the Kano School, is particularly known for expanding the school's repertoire through his bold artistic techniques and patronage.
  • Although the Kanō school was the most successful in Japan, the distinctions between its work and the work of other schools tended to diminish over time, as all schools worked in a range of styles and formats, making the attribution of unsigned works often unclear.
  • Tan'yū headed the Kajibashi branch of the Kanō school in Edo and painted in many castles, including the Imperial palace.

• Chicago School of Architecture

  • Chicago's architecture is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School.
  • In the history of architecture, the Chicago School was a school of architects active in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century.
  • Sometimes elements of neoclassical architecture are used in Chicago School skyscrapers.
  • Many Chicago School skyscrapers contain the three parts of a classical column.
  • The "Chicago window" originated in this school.