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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…

Titian painted Sacred and Profane Love in circa 1515. It was commissioned by Niccoló Aurelio in 1514, a superb chancellor in Venice's city government, on behalf of his matrimony to Laura Bagarotto of Padua [1]. In 1613, this composition was described…

Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter who had a big impact on Venetian painting by adding a more sensuous and coloristic style. Using effects of light with different color hues, Bellini was able to draw attention towards and away from…

This painting is extraordinary because it survived two extreme fires of the Ducal Palace in 1574 and 1577. Titian created it in 1524, and it is currently in the Ducal Palace, over the staircase leading to the Doge's private apartment. There are few…

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…

The portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan is one of Giovanni Bellini's most famous paintings, and it is currently in the National Gallery in London, United Kingdom. Doge Leonardo Loredan ruled Venice from 1501 to 1521, and Bellini completed the painting…

The Danaë with Cupid by Titian is the earliest version of this painting, and it was created in 1545-46. The Danaë with Cupid was a commission for Cardinal Farnese, and he did not seem too worried about the ecclesiastical office interfering with his…

Titian created Saint Margaret and the Dragon in ca. 1565 and it is currently in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. Philip II owned two paintings of this saint: one remains of the Escorial, which came in 1574, and the version in the Museo del Prado…

The Dream of Ursula was created by Vittore Carpaccio in 1495 and is currently placed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy.  This painting is the fifth canvas out of the nine large paintings in the series "Stories from the Life of St…