Discuss Venetian High Renaissance art through the works of Giorgione and Titian.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
- Both Giorgione and Titian were students of the Venetian master Giovanni Bellini.
- Their paintings demonstrate an exquisite sensitivity to the play of light and shadow, to the luxurious display of detail and design, and to an opulent variety of pattern and texture.
- Giorgione's Tempest fully realized the mysterious qualities of Leonardo da Vinci's highly charged atmospheric paintings, such as the Mona Lisa.
- Titian's paintings clearly demonstrate one of the primary subjects of Venetian art: sensuality, even outright sexuality, as in his Venus of Urbino.
- Titian was a master of color-the rich varieties of warm reds, the luminosity of his glazes. In fact, his color came to define the art of Venice itself. When people speak of "Venetian" color, they have Titian in mind.
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