Week 8: High Renaissance Venice

Tempest

• Giogione was a student of aritst Bollini

• he died when he was 30

• more of a landscape painitng than a human focus

• no central figures

Pastoral Concert

• created by Titian or Giorgione

• two men are dressed

• both artists were students of Bollini, so it’s hard to identify

• woman pouring water into well

• woman represents music, or muses

• uses stomata (smokey) like Leonardo

• celebrates the beauty of the natural world

Assumption of the Virgin

• more than 20 ft tall

• ppl at bottom are tall irl /they are the apostles

• God is off center

The Venus of Urbino:

• Classical motif: reclining female nude

• Possible Marriage portrait?

• Beauty personified, or a courtesan?

• arm guides people to look to her private area

• women taking clothes out of boxes

• dog = symbol of fertility

• showing her beauty

• torso long, toes short

The Last Supper:

• chiaroscuro

• dramatic scene

• Titian’s use of color

• Michealangelo’s style of drawing

• way darker, place with no natural light

• more dramatic

• feels like we are in the scene with the people

• a lot of background characters

• animal drinking

• halo of apostles are small compared to Jesus

• Jesus actively giving good and drinks

• dramatic contrast between light and dark

Feast in the House of Levi

• intended to be last supper

• showed Venice as a diverse area