INNOVATION and EXPERIMENTATION: VENETIAN RENAISSANCE and MANNERISM (Titian and Pontormo) VENETIAN RENAISSANCE
INNOVATION and EXPERIMENTATION: VENETIAN RENAISSANCE and MANNERISM (Titian and Pontormo) VENETIAN RENAISSANCE Online Links: Giovanni Bellini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Feast of the Gods – Smarthistory The Tempest - Smarthistory Titian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bacchus and Ariadne – Smarthistory Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne- National Gallery Podcast Venus of Urbino - Smarthistory Giorgione - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Venus of Urbino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia MANNERISM Online Links: Introduction to Mannerism - Smarthistory Correggio's Assumption of the Virgin - Smarthistory (no video) Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long Neck – Smarthistory Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus Beheading Medusa Benvenuto Cellini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pontormo's Entombment - Smarthistory Giovanni Bellini and Titian. The Feast of the Gods, 1529, oil on canvas Above: Map of 16th century Venice Left: Giovanni Bellini. Self-Portrait The High Renaissance in Venice coincided with the decline of the empire and the threat that the city would lose the independent status it had enjoyed for eight hundred years. Formidable foreign powers such as the French and Spanish kings, the pope, the Holy Roman emperor, and the rulers of Milan united against Venice and formed the League of Cambrai in 1509. They took most of the Venetian territory, including the important city of Verona, but not Venice itself. By 1529, peace was restored along with most of the territory, and Venice propagated the myth of its uniqueness in having survived so great a threat. In this illustration of a scene from Ovid’s, Fasti the gods, Jupiter, Neptune, and Apollo among them, revel in a wooded pastoral setting, eating and drinking, attended by nymphs and satyrs.
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