Presentation of the Virgin is an oil on canvas painting of the Presentation of Mary by Tintoretto, created c. 1551-1556, in the church of Madonna dell'Orto in Venice. [1] Its diagonals aim to provide a stark contrast to Titian's 1534-1538 work of the same subject. [2] Vasari's Lives of the Artists calls it "A finished work, and the best-made and most felicitous painting in that place". [3]
Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of Western cryptography, a claim he shares with Johannes Trithemius.
Piero della Francesca, originally named Piero di Benedetto, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective. His most famous work is the cycle of frescoes The History of the True Cross in the church of San Francesco in the Tuscan town of Arezzo.
Tintoretto was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed with which he painted, and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso. His work is characterised by his muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective, in the Mannerist style.
The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, the art academy of Venice, from which it became independent in 1879, and for which the Ponte dell'Accademia and the Accademia boat landing station for the vaporetto water bus are named. The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004, when the art school moved to the Ospedale degli Incurabili.
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino was an Italian Renaissance painter from Milan.
Carlo Ridolfi (1594–1658) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the Baroque period.
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Iacopo Negretti, best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane, was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school.
San Giorgio Maggiore is a 16th-century Benedictine church on the island of the same name in Venice, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio, and built between 1566 and 1610. The church is a basilica in the classical Renaissance style and its brilliant white marble gleams above the blue water of the lagoon opposite the Piazzetta di San Marco and forms the focal point of the view from every part of the Riva degli Schiavoni.
Events from the year 1518 in art.
The Madonna dell'Orto is a church in Venice, Italy, in the sestiere of Cannaregio.
Marietta Robusti was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance period. She was the daughter of Tintoretto and is sometimes referred to as Tintoretta.
Domenico Robusti, also known as Domenico Tintoretto, was an Italian painter from Venice. He grew up under the tutelage of his father, the renowned painter Jacopo Tintoretto.
Antonio del Massaro da Viterbo, or Antonio da Viterbo, nicknamed il Pastura was an Italian painter.
Il Paradiso is a massive oil painting on canvas that dominates the main hall of the Doge's Palace in Venice. It is one of the largest paintings of canvas in the world and was painted by Jacopo Robusti, known more commonly as Tintoretto, son of a Venetian dyer. The painting features a heavenly scene with depictions of various religious figures such as the portrayal of Justina, patron saint of Padua.
Michela Ramadori is an Italian art historian, author and academic.
Assumption of the Virgin is a c.1555 oil on canvas painting by Tintoretto, now in the I Gesuiti. It and Presentation at the Temple were both originally painted for the church of Santa Maria dei Crociferi. Its colouring is similar to that of Paolo Veronese and Carlo Ridolfi wrote of it that originally Veronese had gained the commission for it before Tintoretto took it from him by promising to produce the work in Veronese's style.
Presentation at the Temple is a 1554-1556 oil on canvas painting by Tintoretto, painted for the church of Santa Maria dei Crociferi and now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, in Venice. It was commissioned by the Scuola dei Bottari, which is referenced by a small barrel or botte on the steps below the altar.
Baptism of Christ is a c. 1580 oil on canvas painting by Tintoretto, one of several treatments of the same subject by that artist. One of his most notable works, it hangs as an altarpiece in the church of San Silvestro, Venice. The background landscape is dominated by water, which has major symbolic significance in such a scene.
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