Sixteenth-Century Art in Venice, Mannerism, and the North




Early Sixteenth-Century Venetian Art



Giovanni Bellini, The San Zaccaria Altarpiece, church of
San Zaccaria, Venice, 1514. (17-31)


 
                                       

Giovanni Bellini, Feast
of the Gods, 1514 (17-32) 

                                        

Giorgione, Tempest,
c. 1510 (17-34)
 


Giorgione, and/or Titian 
Pastoral Symphony, c. 1508 (17-33)

                                        


Titian, The Assumption of the Virgin, ca. 1516-1518 (17-35) 



Titian, 
Pesaro Madonna, located in the Church of the Frari, 1519-26 (17-36) [Skip this time]



Titian, Bacchus
and Ariadne, 1522-1523 (17-37)



Titian, Venus
of Urbino, 1538 (17-38).

See also: Edouard Manet, Olympia 
1863. (French, 19th century) Here's an 
article on Manet and "Olympia". 

More on Manet's Olympia
 1863. (21-8) 




Titian, Isabella d'Este, 1534/36 (17-39) [Skip this time]



Two Architects in Venice



Jacopo Sansovino, The Mint (1535-1545) and the State Library (begun
1536), both part of the Piazza Ducale complex, Venice. (17-55) 



Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotonda, near Vicenza (which is near Venice),
1566-1570. (17-56, 57)



Andrea Palladio, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1565.(17-58, 59)



Later 16th-Century Venetian Art



Veronese,  Christ
in the House of Levi, (originally known as The Last Supper), 1573. (17-53)

Paolo Veronese Before the Inquisition in Venice
 


Veronese,  Triumph of Venice,  located in the Palazzo Ducale,
Venice, 1588. (17-54) [Skip this time]




Tintoretto,  The
Last Supper, 1594 (17-52) 


 
 





Mannerism



Andrea del Sarto, Madonna of the Harpies, 1517 (17-40) [Skip this time]
 



Pontormo, 
Descent from the Cross,  1525-28 (17-42)



Parmigianino, Madonna
with the Long Neck, c. 1535 (17-43)

                                        

Bronzino, Venus, Cupid, Folly, Time (Exposure of Luxury)
 c. 1546 (17-44) [Skip this time]


 
 
Bronzino, Portrait of a Young Man, ca. 1530s 
 
 He lives at the Met!(17-45) [Skip this time] 



Giovanni da Bologna, 
Abduction of the Sabine Woman, located in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, 1583 (17-48)

                                        


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Also:

Sofonisba Anguissola, Portrait of the Artist's Sisters and
Brother, ca. 1555. (This is not really an example of Mannerism, but we
will generously bow to the classification of the text.) (17-45) 

Oye vey, it's missing, so look at her 
Chess Game (1555) instead!



                                        
                                       

                                        
 


        
Chapter 18

        The Age of Reformation

                                        

16th-Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain



Matthias Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, oil on panel, ca. 1510-1515 (18-2, 3)



Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, ca. 1498. Woodcut (Intro-8)
                                        


Dürer, The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve), engraving, 1504 (18-6) [Skip this time]

                    

Dürer, Great Piece of Turf, watercolor, 1503 (18-7)



Dürer, Knight, Death, and the Devil, engraving, 1513 (18-8)



Dürer, The Four Apostles, oil on panel, 1526 (18-5)
                                        

                                        

Albrecht Altdorfer, The Battle of Issus, oil on panel. 1529. (18-9)



Hans Holbein the Younger, 
The French Ambassadors,  1533 (18-10) Remember the anamorphism (a "memento mori", 
or symbol of the brevity of life)


                                        

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, Netherlands, 1565 (18-22)



El Greco, The Burial of Count Orgaz, Toledo, Spain, 1586 (18-26)





Left out of this edition, but you might want to take a
look: 
Holbein, Christina
of Denmark, 1538












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