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Venetian
Final Exam
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
05/04/2014

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Giorgione

Laura 

1506

Oil on canvas

Inscription on back- request of mister Giacomo

 

Junkermann- courtesan- man's robe- laurel and poetry

Appeal to male or female viewer

 

Thinly painted

Natural quality of oil paint

 

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Giorgione

The Tempest 

c. 1509-1510

Oil on canvas

 

Open to viewers own reading with no concrete subject/narrative

 

2 figs look in 2 different planes 

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Giorgioine

Sleeping Venus

1509-1510

 

Finished by Titian

made for nobleman Girolamo Marcello

Venus and Cupid, mythological

 

First reclining female nude

Why lying in landscape?- female body and nature

 

Venus pudica pose- protecting/hiding genitals

Poem- Epithalamium- celebrate marriage

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Titian

Pastoral Concert

c. 1510

 

Dressed men and nude women- 

 

about music and poetry- the pastoral

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Titian 

The Assumption of the Virgin

c. 1515-1518

Oil on panel- physically harder

 

1518- Venice just reclaimed mainland territory- triumphant virgin

 

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Titian 

The Venus of Urbino

1537-1538

 

Like Giorgione's "Sleeping Venus" which Titian finished

Reclining female nude-

Made for duke of Urbino- 

 

Looking at us directly, in a room, jewelry

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Titian

Rape of Europa

1559-1562

 

Made for King of Spain

Loose brushstrokes- can see canvas

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Paolo Veronese

Adoration of the Virgin by the Coccina Family

c. 1571

 

Family of chittadini- for portego of their house

Portraits of family with the 3 virtue (faith, piety, and hope)

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Paolo Veronese 

The Triumph of Venice

@ Doge's Palace 

c. 1579-1582

 

Painting on ceiling-

Allegorical subject- Venice being crowned (ref to Mary)

Various gods, olive leaves- peace, grain- prosperity/food

Venice nobles at balcony, lion of st Mark

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Jacopo Sansovino 

The Zecca

begun 1536

 

(Mint)- with library, both are centers for open culture and knowledge- center of painting

Top added 1558 not by Sansovino

Heavy fortification at bottom

Upper floor- Doric

Doesn't match with library- show contrast

both classical symbol and symbolically put together

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Jacopo Sansovino 

Library of San Marco

begun 1537

 

Next to Zecca

Uses orders in expressive way to convey idea of the building, very ornamental, sculptures in arches

Serliana windows (semi-circle), balistrade at top

 

Relationship to Doge's palace-

Cresting, diff stylistically, sense of repetition and spacing of columns

Doric on bottom, ionic on top

Mix and match

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Jacopo Sansovino

Ca' Corner

begun 1545

 

More classical- Roman arch, symmetrical, use of orders

Barely retains the portego

Has rounded columns

Mannerist, huge block-like palace that wraps around to the side of building- stick out further than ones by it

Statement- huge, 

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Palladio

Villa Barbaro

Maser

c. 1555-1559

 

Inside is painted by Veronese

Puts pediment on a house

Giant columns, hierarchy between center and sides

Stately looking

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Palladio

Villa Rotunda

Vicenza

1550-1551

 

Not a functional farm but a country home

has 4 portions, centrally planned building

Main hall inside- paintings are mannerist

Contradicts simplicity of outside

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Gianbattista Tiepolo 

Finding of Moses

late 1730s

 

Focus on fabrics and figures

Difficult to follow the narrative

No pictorial unity; lacking narration

 

figures so close- clothing overlap

No guidance through body gesture-

Takes Veronese's version and redoes it like a performance

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John Singer Sargent 

A Street in Venice

(watercolor) 

1880 or 1882

 

Exterior view, wall shoes decay of the building (city)

More casual with the figures talking

Alleyway- don't know what is really going on between the figures

Tavern- inscription and bottle on wall

Winter- Exotic, "light at end of tunnel"

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John Singer Sargent 

Santa Maria Della Salute

(watercolor)

1904

 

Shows us a fragment of the building, so you need to know which it is...

On the Grand Canal

Style: baroquification of Palladio- ornamental sculpture, huge volutes w/ sculptures

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Courtesan
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High status prostitute

 

Regulations and taxes, state benefited

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League of Cambrai
Definition

1509- to deal with mainland expantion

Pope mad because he was losing land

 

Spain, Germany, Austria w Pope (HRE)

in order to get back land

 

Later that year- battle of Agnadello (Venice lost land)

 

1518- gained back most of land... decline

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Holy Roman Empire
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1494-1529 Italian wars

 

1527 Sack of Rome

 

1529 Peace Treaty of Bologna

 

Venice was last remaining republic- many artists

no large church influence

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John Ruskin
Definition

19th century art critic and artist

 

Watercolors of architecture of Venice

The Stones of Venice book

 

 

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Marghera
Definition

After WWI

 

Industrial area on the mainland (eyesore)

Provide jobs for people

Why dredged canals- sunk city 5 inches

 

1966 flood- had to change to preserve city

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Oil on Canvas
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Venice is famous

Couldn't do fresco- also no wood panels

Climate- humidity

Could make larger- $$ selling

Led to shift in style and subject

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The Grand Tour
Definition

Height in 18th century

Artists would visit classical works for inspiration and learning

 

Rome final destination in Italy- Venice main spot

 

Turner- Venice was love

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Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Liberated" Venice in name of "Republicanism"

 

May 9th, 1797- gave Venice ultimatum- make them capitulate- Great council met for last time on this date

 

Oct 18th, 1797- Campoformio- Venice and mainland become part or Austria

 

1806, Venice to France in Napolionic Empire that destroyed and transformed many churches in Venice-

Churches into prisons- stole works of art 

 

1814- Venice to Austria- built railroads- bridge to city and other modernizations

Napoleon exiled

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Unification of Italy
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19th century

(1866)

Venice finally incorporated into Italy

Taken away from Austrians 

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Colorito
Definition

Famous in Venice

Process of applying paint- feeling gesture of artist

Emotive

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Giacomo Casanova
Definition

1725-'98, died after fall of Venetian state

 

"Story of My Life"- 12 volumes

one of most important testimonials of life in 18th century

 

Many professions- studied law, gambler, women

 

Imprisoned in Venice (Doge's palace)

Public outrages against religion

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William Wordsworth
Definition

Wrote poem

 

The Extinction of the Venetian Republic 1802

 

Never went to Venice

 

"Eldest Child of Liberty"

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Henry James
Definition

1888, "Aspern Papers"

 

Romantic writer, European

 

Venice as mysterious- old abandoned lover

Falling apart- still retained mystery- exotic still

 

Venice= death, poverty, and nostalgia

 

"based on Lord Byron"

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Disegno
Definition

Focus in central Europe

Process of complicate design and composition-

Drawing and design- outline and drafts

Less feeling of artist's presence

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Hapsburgs
Definition

Austrian power that had hold of Venice

 

Napoleon trying to "rescue Venice"- 1797

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Lord Byron
Definition

Writer and Poet

Long poem on Venice- Ode On Venice


Went to Venice- more realistic poems

Less romanticized language

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MOSE
Definition

The MOSE Project

Protect/control etrance/exit of tides

 

Protect city from aqua alta

 

Lots of controversy- can't leave

not established sewer system- block natural flow of water

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