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Jacopo de’ Barbari was a Venetian painter, famous for having his own unique style. De’Barbari was a printmaker and even engraved wood to portray some of his pieces, which have been known to be highly influential [1]. He is probably most remembered…

This painting was painted by Jacopo Bassano, a young man who trained at the cosmopolitan workshop of Bonifacio de’Pitati, circa 1580. This particular painting is apart of the collection of the Sala del Anticollegio in the Palazzo Ducale. Seen in the…

Compared to Giorgione’s Judith, Cariani’s Judith is dark and sensual, beautiful but clearly dangerous. Centrally positioned, Judith emerges from an ominous background filled with storm clouds, her left breast exposed and framed by dark green drapery…

When the audience first looks at Bellini's work their eyes are drawn towards the group of mythological figures in the center of the painting.  On the right hand side, we are first greeted by a nymph clothed in glistening white clothes that flows with…

     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…

The Feast of the Gods was created by Giovanni Bellini in 1514 and then later done by Titian in 1529. This painting has a mythological subject matter. This painting is very different from what Bellini mainly produces because it was the end of the…

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…

St.Francis stands barefoot at the focal point of this painting adorned in tanish brown Catholic monk robes.  His arms are extended out to his sides in a fashion similar to depictions of Christ showing his crucifixion wounds.[2]  His head is upturned…

This painting was done by Giovanni Bellini in 1480. Bellini was known to bring humanistics and religious qualities into a naturalistic painting. [2]. This work is no excpetion as it a provides a beautiful landscape that almost seems like a photograph…

Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis is known by many names including The Ecstasy of St. Francis, St. Francis in the Desert, and The Stigmatization of St. Francis [1]. All of these given names could describe the piece well as it is a depiction of St.…