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The Last Supper is an oil on canvas painting Jacopo Tintoretto painted. This Italian Renaissance artist painted this between the years 1592-1594. The scene portrays a frontal view with multiple people sitting parallel from each other. The painting…

The Tempest was created by Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco) around 1510. The enigma behind this painting baffled many historians over the years and there are different interpretations of this painting. This wasn’t on display for many years as it…

The large white archways and Corinthian style marble pillars immediately give Veronese's painting a classical architectual syle and a sense of grandeur.  The archways are large and ornate and give views into the large banquet taking place.  The space…

The painting Feast in the House of Levi by Paolo Veronese was made from 1571 to 1573 and today is located in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy. At first, this painting was created as a replacement to Titian’s Last Supper, yet over time it…

Veronese was commissioned in 1573 to paint a great banqueting picture for the convent of San Giovanni e Paolo [1]. It is a large oil painting, that now resides in the Galleria dell’Accademia in Venice. Its original name, The Last Supper, was…

The scene depicted in Titian’s Pietà shows a dead Jesus Christ in the arms of his mother the Virgin Mary. St. Jerome clutches his arm while a startled Mary Magdalene rushes either towards or away from the corpse in horror. Behind the scene is a…

Jacopo Tintoretto was commissioned by the Scuola Grande di San Marco in 1547 to create a painting for the Sala Capitolare [1]. The artist came from a family of cloth dyers in Venice. He practiced drawing and painting from a young age, landing a spot…

The Tempest was one of the first landscape dominant works of the Venetian Renaissance. The work was commissioned by Gabriele Vendramin, and was completed only a few short years before Giorgione’s early death from the plague [1]. Due to the timing, it…

The Tempest, painted by Giorgione c. 1505, is considered a groundbreaking piece of artwork for the time it was created in. Breaking traditional Venetian style, Giorgione painted a piece highly focused on the landscape, with a variety of hidden…

The Tempest was an important work in Renaissance landscape painting, and one of the 5 surviving works by Giorgione. The painting depicts a storm moving towards two main figures, with a child in the arms of the woman. The male figure looks at the…