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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…

Titian, one of the most important members of the 16th century Venetian school, was an Italian painter during the Renaissance [1]. Titian was famous for his drastic use of color, where he used calculated brushwork and subtle tone to spread his…

Sisyphus is a painting that depicts an old Greek myth. It was painted by Titian, who completed numerous commissions for mythological paintings including Bacchus and Ariadne, Diana and Actaeon, and the work discussed here, Sisyphus [1]. The myth of…

Commissioned by Mary of Hungary for the Binche Palace and painted by Titian c. 1548, Sisyphus documents the story of the King of Corinth, Sisyphus. Sisyphus was condemned to push a boulder to the top of a hill in the Underworld repeatedly, for the…

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is the founder and first sovereign ruler of modern Corinth (which was then Ephyra). After numerous attempts to trick the gods and cheat death, the gods finally catch up to him and punish him. Sisyphus’ sentence is to roll…

In this painting, we see Saint Francis in the Desert after receiving stigmata, the crucifixion wounds of Jesus. Giovanni Bellini pulls the focus onto the details of the landscape in multiple ways. First, with regards to the composition of the image,…

The oil on panel work was commissioned by an esteemed Venetian bishop by the name of Giovanni Michiel. The dominating subject of the work, located in the foreground and positioned slightly to the right, is Saint Francis of Assisi. The scene depicted…

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.…

Upon the death of Gentile Bellini in 1507, it was prescribed in his will that his younger brother, Giovanni Bellini, would complete the work St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria commissioned by the Scuola Grande di San Marco [1]. Giovanni’s continuation…