EIGHT VENETIAN PAINTINGS, 1450 - 1600, IN THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO
EIGHT VENETIAN PAINTINGS, 1450 - 1600, IN THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO
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1977
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Small, Mary R.
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In Italy the creative impulses of a new Renaissance style in art were first felt in Florence, not in Venice. As early as 1427, in the Trinity in Santa Maria Novella, Masaccio displayed the comprehension of form, the use of accurate perspective and the interest in portraiture which indicated that a major stylistic transformation had taken place in painting. The art of Venice, still essentially under Byzantine and Gothic influence in the early 15th century, was slower in developing these new artistic ideas. Yet, at least by 1505, the date of Giovanni Bellini's San Zaccaria altarpiece and the approximate time of Giorgione's The Tempest, Venetian art had incorporated the Florentine innovations and developed its own distinguishing characteristics. Drawn from the unique Venetian environment, a rich and sensuous color, a soft enveloping light and a poetically described landscape background became the hallmarks of the Venetian contribution to Italian Renaissance art.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ART AND THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LONE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE