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Jacopo Tintoretto was an artist hailing from Venice during the sixteenth century and was the son of a man who dyed silk to make a living. This painting, Summer, is one of three paintings by Tintoretto that are representative of the 3 seasons,…

A visual representation of summer as a woman is seen here laying in the grass surrounded by images that makes one think of summer. The woman is thought to be the Roman goddess Ceres, who presided over agriculture and grains. Behind the goddess, there…

     In this oil painting, we immediately see a contrast in color and shading between the foreground, which contains Greco-Roman mythological figures, and the background, with the jagged and rough landscape. Immediately, the viewer notices the bright…

In this piece, we see a woman gently holding her child; the two characters can specifically be identified as the Virgin Mary with the child Jesus. The woman’s hair is covered with a dark cloth and she wears a red dress as she holds the child on a…

Giovanni Bellini painted this work of art. He was a painter of the Venetian School who was sensitive to the colors and adept at using them to convey messages in his painting. He was also known for the ability to crate realist drawings with the effect…

This oil on panel painting was one of Giovanni Bellini’s earlier works. The dating of this painting as 1505, indicated by the inscription in the bottom left corner of the painting, is puzzling to many art historians as the style of this painting was…

Painted by Giovanni Bellini in 1505, and currently located in the National Gallery of Art, this painting depicts Saint Jerome reading in the desert, and is believed to be an affirmation of Bellini's religious devotion. Saint Jerome Reading is…

This painting was commissioned to Titian in 1544 for the new albergo (board room). This one of the wealthiest religious confraternities in Venice, stated in the National Gallery of Art article. This painting was one of four original scuole grandi.…

Jacopo Tintoretto is an important leading figure of the Venetian School and the Mannerist style. He studied at Italian painter Titian's studio and had greatly influenced by Titan's use of color.[1] The painting embodied his expressive dramatic…