{"exhibit":{"id":18,"title":"Landscapes in Venetian Art During the Renaissance","description":"<p>The landscape of a painting consists of natural elements: trees, valleys, mountains, rivers, and other non-natural structures. All these components are arranged into a coherent composition to create an intricate scene that covers the canvas. Many paintings in the earliest ancient and Classical periods included elements of natural features but it was not considered its own independent genre [1]. Landscapes as a genre was not distinguished in European art until the Renaissance. Medieval Age art laid emphasis on the figures and paid little attention to the setting that they were placed in [2].<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Landscapes began to emerge as a more explicit feature in Venice in the late fifteenth century as backgrounds became more and more detailed. During the Venetian Renaissance, the great artist Giovanni Bellini emerged as an illustrious painter. His religious subject matter was often complemented by a scene of natural wonders influenced by the watery topography Venice provided and its unique parade of color and light. Bellini transformed traditional religious paintings into alluring depictions of the Venetian mainland all while keeping with the ideas and motifs of the Counter Reformation happening during this era [3]. Bellini\u2019s unprecedented work set the stage for his pupils, Titian and Giorgione, to continue and further evolve the development towards this element as an independent genre.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This exhibit offers the opportunity to explore the development of landscapes throughout the Renaissance by these three prominent artists, how their ideas influenced novel works and were exchanged between one another, and how the commissioners and patrons of their work affected their individual style. None of these artists painted a landscape as an end in itself, but their role played a major part in the process of developing this genre into a recognized mode of artistic expression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>1. Naomi Blumberg, \u201cLandscape Painting,\u201d April 3, 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/landscape-painting\"><span>https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/landscape-painting<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cLandscape in the Renaissance,\u201d Landscape in the Renaissance (Getty Center Exhibitions), accessed November 12, 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getty.edu\/art\/exhibitions\/landscape_renaissance\/\"><span>https:\/\/www.getty.edu\/art\/exhibitions\/landscape_renaissance\/<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cGiovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice: Getty360 Calendar,\u201d The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles, October 10, 2017, https:\/\/www.getty.edu\/visit\/cal\/events\/ev_1730.html.<\/p>","credits":"Olivia Migli","featured":0,"public":1,"theme":"default","theme_options":"a:1:{s:7:\"default\";a:12:{s:10:\"text_color\";s:7:\"#3b322a\";s:16:\"background_color\";s:7:\"#e7e7da\";s:10:\"link_color\";s:7:\"#3b322a\";s:12:\"button_color\";s:7:\"#d2d7d5\";s:17:\"button_text_color\";s:7:\"#f9f9f9\";s:18:\"header_title_color\";s:7:\"#f9f9f9\";s:4:\"logo\";N;s:11:\"footer_text\";s:0:\"\";s:24:\"display_footer_copyright\";s:1:\"0\";s:17:\"item_file_gallery\";s:1:\"1\";s:19:\"use_advanced_search\";s:1:\"1\";s:17:\"header_background\";s:36:\"b2591aa99cfc53bf5eeee54577d713cc.jpg\";}}","slug":"landscapes-in-venetian-art-dur","added":"2020-11-11 16:18:37","modified":"2020-11-20 00:08:24","owner_id":12,"use_summary_page":1,"cover_image_file_id":null},"item":{"id":91,"item_type_id":null,"collection_id":12,"featured":0,"public":1,"added":"2020-09-30 16:10:23","modified":"2020-10-06 16:23:29","owner_id":2}}