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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…

     In this painting, we see a multitude of figures, some of which are in the nude whereas others are defined by idealized drapery. Immediately, the first aspect noticed is the shape of the canvas: a rectangular center with 4 semicircular lobes…

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…

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…

Feast in the House of Levi was a replacement for the painting of an earlier work by Titian destroyed by the fire in 1571. [1] Originally Caliari had this painting name Lord's Last Supper and intended to be a monumental artwork for a religious…

Paolo Veronese was a renaissance painter known primarily for his paintings relating to religion and mythology. His personality itself was very mysterious and little was known about him, due to few documentations of letters and personal life. [1]…

Standing tall and regal in a three-quarter pose, Caterina gazes sideways at the viewer with composure, her lips pursed and hands clasped together in front of her. Her lavishly-robed figure fills the frame, positioned against a sober black background…

In this portrait – believed to be a self-portrait of Marietta Robusti – the sitter gazes outward at the audience with a slight smile. Turned in a three-quarter pose toward the spinet, her left hand floats above the keys as if surprised by the viewer…

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…

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…