Spanish hardcover edition
ISBN: 9788415113980
Format: 24 x 27 cm
288 pages
Authors: Fernando Checa and others
Contents: 6 essays, catalogue cards commented by various authors, full-colour reproduction of the catalogue works, illustrative images, chronology and bibliography.
THE RENAISSANCE IN VENICE. The Triumph of Beauty and the Destruction of Painting is a reflection on the art of the lagoon city throughout the 16th century. The presentation of this artistic focus, essential for understanding the history of painting, is not approached in this exhibition from the chronological or stylistic perspectives of the masters who brought universal fame to this school, but from a carefully considered selection of themes executed by the artists who built its myth. The tour starts with the solutions provided by Giovanni Bellini, the basis of a new formulation that the brushes of Giorgione and Titian transformed, thereby changing the artistic panorama of the city. In each of the 7 sections, a representative subject is offered that was interpreted in a personal way by these artists, images from which they stripped their devotional and cultural connotations to take them to something purely beautiful and artistic. In this way, an idea of beauty was finally forged that was an alternative to the aesthetic premises that, at that time, were radiating from Florence and Rome.
Catalogue sponsored by the Abertis Foundation
