Giorgione

Laura 

1506

Oil on canvas

Inscription on back- request of mister Giacomo

Junkermann- courtesan- man's robe- laurel and poetry

Appeal to male or female viewer

Thinly painted

Natural quality of oil paint

Giorgione

The Tempest 

c. 1509-1510

Oil on canvas

Open to viewers own reading with no concrete subject/narrative

2 figs look in 2 different planes 

Giorgioine

Sleeping Venus

1509-1510

Finished by Titian

made for nobleman Girolamo Marcello

Venus and Cupid, mythological

First reclining female nude

Why lying in landscape?- female body and nature

Venus pudica pose- protecting/hiding genitals

Poem- Epithalamium- celebrate marriage

Titian

Pastoral Concert

c. 1510

Dressed men and nude women- 

about music and poetry- the pastoral

Titian 

The Assumption of the Virgin

c. 1515-1518

Oil on panel- physically harder

1518- Venice just reclaimed mainland territory- triumphant virgin

Titian 

The Venus of Urbino

1537-1538

Like Giorgione's "Sleeping Venus" which Titian finished

Reclining female nude-

Made for duke of Urbino- 

Looking at us directly, in a room, jewelry

Titian

Rape of Europa

1559-1562

Made for King of Spain

Loose brushstrokes- can see canvas

Paolo Veronese

Adoration of the Virgin by the Coccina Family

c. 1571

Family of chittadini- for portego of their house

Portraits of family with the 3 virtue (faith, piety, and hope)

Paolo Veronese 

The Triumph of Venice

@ Doge's Palace 

c. 1579-1582

Painting on ceiling-

Allegorical subject- Venice being crowned (ref to Mary)

Various gods, olive leaves- peace, grain- prosperity/food

Venice nobles at balcony, lion of st Mark

Jacopo Sansovino 

The Zecca

begun 1536

(Mint)- with library, both are centers for open culture and knowledge- center of painting

Top added 1558 not by Sansovino

Heavy fortification at bottom

Upper floor- Doric

Doesn't match with library- show contrast

both classical symbol and symbolically put together

Jacopo Sansovino 

Library of San Marco

begun 1537

Next to Zecca

Uses orders in expressive way to convey idea of the building, very ornamental, sculptures in arches

Serliana windows (semi-circle), balistrade at top

Relationship to Doge's palace-

Cresting, diff stylistically, sense of repetition and spacing of columns

Doric on bottom, ionic on top

Mix and match

Jacopo Sansovino

Ca' Corner

begun 1545

More classical- Roman arch, symmetrical, use of orders

Barely retains the portego

Has rounded columns

Mannerist, huge block-like palace that wraps around to the side of building- stick out further than ones by it

Statement- huge, 

Palladio

Villa Barbaro

Maser

c. 1555-1559

Inside is painted by Veronese

Puts pediment on a house

Giant columns, hierarchy between center and sides

Stately looking

Palladio

Villa Rotunda

Vicenza

1550-1551

Not a functional farm but a country home

has 4 portions, centrally planned building

Main hall inside- paintings are mannerist

Contradicts simplicity of outside

Gianbattista Tiepolo 

Finding of Moses

late 1730s

Focus on fabrics and figures

Difficult to follow the narrative

No pictorial unity; lacking narration

figures so close- clothing overlap

No guidance through body gesture-

Takes Veronese's version and redoes it like a performance

John Singer Sargent 

A Street in Venice

(watercolor) 

1880 or 1882

Exterior view, wall shoes decay of the building (city)

More casual with the figures talking

Alleyway- don't know what is really going on between the figures

Tavern- inscription and bottle on wall

Winter- Exotic, "light at end of tunnel"

John Singer Sargent 

Santa Maria Della Salute

(watercolor)

1904

Shows us a fragment of the building, so you need to know which it is...

On the Grand Canal

Style: baroquification of Palladio- ornamental sculpture, huge volutes w/ sculptures

High status prostitute

Regulations and taxes, state benefited

1509- to deal with mainland expantion

Pope mad because he was losing land

Spain, Germany, Austria w Pope (HRE)

in order to get back land

Later that year- battle of Agnadello (Venice lost land)

1518- gained back most of land... decline

1494-1529 Italian wars

1527 Sack of Rome

1529 Peace Treaty of Bologna

Venice was last remaining republic- many artists

no large church influence

19th century art critic and artist

Watercolors of architecture of Venice

The Stones of Venice book

After WWI

Industrial area on the mainland (eyesore)

Provide jobs for people

Why dredged canals- sunk city 5 inches

1966 flood- had to change to preserve city

Venice is famous

Couldn't do fresco- also no wood panels

Climate- humidity

Could make larger- $$ selling

Led to shift in style and subject

Height in 18th century

Artists would visit classical works for inspiration and learning

Rome final destination in Italy- Venice main spot

Turner- Venice was love

"Liberated" Venice in name of "Republicanism"

May 9th, 1797- gave Venice ultimatum- make them capitulate- Great council met for last time on this date

Oct 18th, 1797- Campoformio- Venice and mainland become part or Austria

1806, Venice to France in Napolionic Empire that destroyed and transformed many churches in Venice-

Churches into prisons- stole works of art 

1814- Venice to Austria- built railroads- bridge to city and other modernizations

Napoleon exiled

19th century

(1866)

Venice finally incorporated into Italy

Taken away from Austrians 

Famous in Venice

Process of applying paint- feeling gesture of artist

Emotive

1725-'98, died after fall of Venetian state

"Story of My Life"- 12 volumes

one of most important testimonials of life in 18th century

Many professions- studied law, gambler, women

Imprisoned in Venice (Doge's palace)

Public outrages against religion

Wrote poem

The Extinction of the Venetian Republic 1802

Never went to Venice

"Eldest Child of Liberty"

1888, "Aspern Papers"

Romantic writer, European

Venice as mysterious- old abandoned lover

Falling apart- still retained mystery- exotic still

Venice= death, poverty, and nostalgia

"based on Lord Byron"

Focus in central Europe

Process of complicate design and composition-

Drawing and design- outline and drafts

Less feeling of artist's presence

Austrian power that had hold of Venice

Napoleon trying to "rescue Venice"- 1797

Writer and Poet

Long poem on Venice- Ode On Venice

Went to Venice- more realistic poems

Less romanticized language

The MOSE Project

Protect/control etrance/exit of tides

Protect city from aqua alta

Lots of controversy- can't leave

not established sewer system- block natural flow of water