The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art - 9781138353329

Taylor & Francis

Contributors to this volume investigate the historical resonance of Venetian sixteenth-century art and explore its afterlife, appropriation, and reinvention by artists working in its shadow. The broad scope of the topics covered in these essays - from Titian's profound influence on the development of landscape painting to the effects of Carpaccio's historical paintings on early twentieth-century fashion - illustrates the pervasive and resilient nature of the Venetian Renaissance's legacy. > Venetian artistic giants of the sixteenth century, such as Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, and their contemporaries, continued to shape artistic development, tastes in collecting, and modes of display long after their own practices ended. The robust reverberation of the Venetian Renaissance spread far beyond the borders of the lagoon to inform and influence artists, authors, and collectors who spent very little or even no time in Venices