Venice

(proper noun)

A maritime city and associated province in the Veneto, Italy.

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Examples of Venice in the following topics:

  • Venice

    • In the latter years of the 15th century, Venice had a distinctive, thriving, and influential art scene.
    • Antonello travelled to Venice c. 1470, to see Giovanni Bellini's paintings.
    • He spent much of the next several years in Venice, where he both influenced and was influenced by Bellini's work.
    • Leonardo da Vinci also visited Venice in 1500; his visit was particularly influential for Giorgione.

  • Pisa, Venice, and Milan

    • The Italian cities of Pisa, Venice, and Milan were important bridges between the Medieval and the Renaissance periods.
    • Venice today is known for its series of canals serving as transportation in this city made up of many islands.
    • In the Middle Ages and into the seventeenth century it was known as the Republic of Venice, a strong power in Northern Italian politics and trade, as well as a maritime power.
    • In addition to exquisite architecture and important paintings, Venice has been since the Medieval period the home to an important community of glass craftsmen.
    • Identify the artistic and architectural importance of Pisa, Venice, and Milan during the Middle Ages.

  • Renaissance Architecture in Venice

    • Venice, the capital of the Veneto, has a rich and diverse architectural style, the most famous of which is the Gothic style.
    • The style originated in 14th century Venice, where the confluence of Byzantine style from Constantinople met Arab influence from Moorish Spain.
    • This phase of architecture demonstrates how Gothic and Byzantine influences lingered much longer in Venice than they did in Florence or Rome during the Renaissance.
    • Later architecture in Venice and the Veneto was largely based on the work of Andrea Palladio, who designed and completed some highly influential works, including villas in the mainland, Vicenza, Padua, and Treviso.
    • In Venice, he designed the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore, the Il Redentore, and Zitelle on the island of Giudecca.

  • Oil Painting

    • Venice entered as a dominant player in Renaissance art and politics with its domination in sea warfare.
    • For much of the Renaissance, Northern Italy and upper Central Italy were divided into a number of warring city-states, the most powerful being Milan, Florence, Pisa, Siena, Genoa, Ferrara, Mantua, Verona, and Venice.
    • While Florence and the southern Italian states were well known for fresco painting, Northern Italy, especially Venice, adopted the technique of oil painting during the High Renaissance.
    • The popularity of oil painting spread throughout Italy from the North, starting in Venice in the late fifteenth century.

  • Italian Trade Cities

    • During the late Middle Ages, Northern and Central Italy became far more prosperous than the south of Italy, with the city-states, such as Venice and Genoa, among the wealthiest in Europe.
    • The main trade routes from the east passed through the Byzantine Empire or the Arab lands and onwards to the ports of Genoa, Pisa, and Venice.
    • An emergence of huge cities (Venice, Florence and Milan had over 100,000 inhabitants by the 13th century in addition to many others such as Genoa, Bologna and Verona, which had over 50,000 inhabitants)
    • John Green discusses the strange and mutually beneficial relationship between a republic, the city-state of Venice, and an Empire, the Ottomans--and how studying history can help you to be a better boyfriend and/or girlfriend.
    • Together, the Ottoman Empire and Venice grew wealthy by facilitating trade: The Venetians had ships and nautical expertise; the Ottomans had access to many of the most valuable goods in the world, especially pepper and grain.

  • European Postwar Expressionism

    • Alberto Giacometti, Woman of Venice VII, Alberto Giacometti, Woman of Venice VII, 1956, bronze.
    • Giacometti's "Woman of Venice" presents the typical solitary figure often seen in his work which was heavily influenced by existentialist modes of thought.

  • The Venetian Painters of the High Renaissance

    • Unfortunately, art historians do not know much about Giorgione, partly because of his early death at around age 30, and partly because artists in Venice were not as individualistic as artists in Florence.
    • Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) was one of the primary Renaissance painters in Venice, well known for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi.
    • His large paintings of biblical feasts executed for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially notable.

  • Preindustrial Cities

    • In exceptional cases like Venice, Genoa, or Lübeck, cities themselves became powerful states, sometimes taking surrounding areas under their control or establishing extensive maritime empires.

  • Painting and Architecture

    • In particular elites in many northern city-states such as Venice, Genoa and Pisa became wealthy through maritime trade.

  • Sculpture

    • Elites in many northern city-states including Venice, Genoa and Pisa became wealthy through maritime trade.