1990 The Hermitage Leningrad Venetian Painting 15th to 18th Century Aurora Art

Description: Yes we combine shipping for most multiple item purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1990 The Hermitage Leningrad Venetian Painting 15th to 18th Century Aurora Art The Venetian school of painting is a phenomenon no less unique thanthe Queen of the Adriatic herself, with her matchless architecture risingamidst natural scenery of singular beauty. During the period from thefifteenth century to the eighteenth, Venetian painting traversed a long evo-lutionary path. Painters of the Venetian school had a particular colouristicvision which stimulated untiring exploration of problems of colouring andcolour harmonies. A strong interest in landscape and a subtle poetic moodwere also characteristic features of their art. The Venetian school madea significant contribution to the development of Western Europeanpainting.The Hermitage owns one of the richest and most representative collec-tions of Venetian paintings. Assembled over nearly 275 years, it has cometo include examples of the work of the best Venetian painters — Giorgione,Titian, Lorenzo Lotto, Paolo Veronese, Tintoretto, Sebastiano Ricci, GiovanniBattista Tiepolo and Francesco Guardi. The present edition contains re-productions of 120 pieces from this remarkable collection, selected in sucha way as to illustrate the evolution of Venetian painting over the courseof four centuries. Several of the canvases included here have been butrecently identified as works from the brush of one or another of Venice’sgreat artists.Aurora Gallery_/Vnyone who has set eyes on Venice is unlikely to forget that wondrous city. Goetheaptly described it as “a dream woven from air, water, earth, and sky”. Built on a multitudeof small islands separated by channels and intersected by countless canals, Venice owes hersingular magic to her natural scenery more than to her beautiful architecture. It seems to bea city over which time has no power. An air of antiquity clings not only to the centre:the suburbs, rarely visited by foreigners and known as sestieri minori, minor quarters, probablyhave an even more historically authentic appearance than the permanently crowded Piazzadi San Marco, which has the face of an enormous stage.In Venice, as in every old city, houses and churches are built close to one another.Yet one senses a conscious search for decorative effect in their disposition. Generation aftergeneration Venetian architects practised essentially the same method of planning, seeking toopen a view of each palace or church from the opposite bank of the canal or the canal itselffor a spectator passing by in a gondola.Venice always had a powerful attraction for painters. Arriving there, often from faraway, they would fall under her spell, trying to re-create her magic in their canvases. Howmuch stronger, then, must have been the city’s influence on the artists who spent their wholelives there! That the Venetian style of painting differed widely from that of other Italianschools, no one will, or has ever attempted to, deny, but various explanations have beenput forward for this difference. Some scholars associate it with the specific character of thecity’s layout and natural setting, while others (who are probably nearer the truth) see its rootsin the general course of the Republic’s economical and political history.For over three centuries the Venetian school produced important works, making continualprogress in the art of painting. Venetian painting possesses certain distinctive character-istics when compared with those of other Italian art centres. Venetian masters developeda highly specific approach to problems of space, form and composition. Unlike otherItalian painters, notably those from Florence, they based their work on the direct visualperception of reality rather than on any intellectual or scientific concept. The Venetians did notadopt the principle of the primacy of drawing over painting. In preference to precisedefinition of form and strict adherence to the rules of proportion and the laws of linear perspec-tive, they chose colour as their chief means of expression. It was through colour that they gaveunity to their picture of the world and lent life to their human figures, investing them withmovement, placing them in space and linking them to their environment. Venetian paint-ing is noted not so much for brilliant and rich colouring as for its subtle harmonies, tonal unityand supreme mastery in the use of chiaroscuro. All this gives us reason to speak of a purelyVenetian pictorial vision and an idiosyncratic, highly sensitive approach to colour.Venetian influence on European painting was very strong especially during the eighteenthcentury, when Venetian artists working in Spain, England, France, Germany, Austria, Poland,and Russia enriched the artistic potential of these countries with their native pictorialtradition.The Hermitage owns an exceptionally rich collection of Venetian paintings, illustrating everyphase of the Venetian school’s formation and development. It includes some of the best and mostrepresentative works by such of its greatest masters as Giorgione, Titian, Lorenzo Lotto,Paolo Veronese, Tintoretto, Sebastiano Ricci, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Francesco Guardi.

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