225 Giorgione

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TitleCastelfranco altarpiece

Creator nameGiorgione

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1500

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions200 × 152 cm

LocationDuomo di Castelfranco Veneto, Italy

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsSacra conversazione (Art)Altarpieces, Renaissance--ItalyPainting, Renaissance--Italy--Venice

StatusVirgin and Child with Saints George and Francis

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7. From Early to High Renaissance (c.1500–1516)

Peter Humfrey

The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice

~~According to Albrecht Dürer, who arrived in Venice in 1505 to paint the Feast of the Rosegarlands for the altar of the local Scuola dei Tedeschi, Giovanni Bellini was at that time ‘very old, but still the best in painting’.Letter to...

Author

Peter Humfrey

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.231-271

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00212.008

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Chapter subject tags:Altarpieces, Renaissance--ItalySacra conversazione (Art)Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528Venice (Italy)--HistoryAltarpieces, Renaissance--Italy--VenicePainting, Renaissance--ItalyPainting, Renaissance--Italy--Venice

3. Interpreting and Narrating the Sacred Image

Marcia B. Hall

Description: The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco,...

The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio

We take for granted the transition from Early to High Renaissance in Florence, as if the new half-millennium automatically engendered the new style. We fail to recognize the extent to which it is a new style, and not the necessary next phase of Renaissance naturalism. It is hard to envisage how the new beginning of what Wölfflin would call “the classic style” would have...

Author

Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.65-95

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00155.006

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Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyPainting--TechniqueChristian art and symbolismMannerism (Art)Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519Religious artRaphael, 1483-1520Correggio, 1489?–1534

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