Venetian Painters

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This paper examines how, in the 16th century during the height of the Italian Renaissance, the art that was created in the city of Venice symbolized a strong, independent, and influential school all its own, which was touched only very slightly by the ideals and fashions of Mannerism that swept Western Europe. It looks at how, within this highly independent school, numerous painters emerged as a group to set the precedents of Venetian art. In particular, it studies the utilization of color in the works of the artists Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese.

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"As most art historians and scholars would heartily agree, Titian, the quintessential Venetian painter, consistently provided the basic framework upon which he explored and utilized color to its utmost limits. By brushing on his colors layer after layer and building up structures within the pigments, Titian produced ?brilliant depths, lights and darks that seem to glow from within the canvas, and the flesh of his figures takes on the tone and illusion of true life.? 4 Yet as an artist, Titian was also doing something else, namely that he was organizing masses of color on his canvases that in the end were always extremely exciting to behold."

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