Engaging Prose Aug 27, 2008
After examining the box, Matteo begins to believe that the painting on its cover is the work of Giorgione. The diary, written in an almost indecipherable hand, is not immediately comprehensible but holds the key to the provenance of the fresco in the house and the painted box. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Italian Artists Nicknames May 24, 2008
European Renaissance Artists Are Better Known by Alternate Names. Famous Western artists in 13th to 17th centuries have celebrated nicknames more famous than their given names. (Suite101.com)
How would Cranach feel about the RA using his nude Venus in a giant advert? Mortified May 5, 2008
The Budapest Martyrdom of St Catherine was painted circa 1505 - at the same time as, on the other side of the Alps, the young Titian was working with Giorgione - yet its sensationalism is entirely gothic. When Giorgione paints a summer storm, it's a masterful exercise in chiaroscuro; when Cranach does it, it's the over-lit backdrop to a monstrously stylish atrocity. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Ferrara inaugurates a partnership with the Hermitage museum in exhibition of works by Il Garofalo Apr 19, 2008
It is believed that Garofalo visited Venice in 1508, where he encountered Giorgione and D. rer, but his greatest single influence was Raphael. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Sebastiano del Piombo: Giving a masterful portraitist his due Mar 15, 2008
In his own time, Sebastiano was as famous as his contemporaries Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione and Titian ... He first entered the studio of Giovanni Bellini and then seems to have studied with Giorgione ... This amazing study of male beauty, with its fine musculature and wonderfully rendered flesh tones - which seems much more a living, sleeping body than one from which the spirit has departed - is almost the male equivalent of Giorgione's stupendous reclining female nudes. (International Herald Tribune)
Scholars blow the canon apart Jan 12, 2008
Her doctoral thesis on Italian Renaissance artist Giorgione eventually became a book. In 2000, at the CIHA conference in London, she was sounded out about hosting the 2008 event. (The Australian)
Canova's "Venus Victorious" is centerpiece of Rome exhibit Dec 7, 2007
The starting point for the "Venus Victorious" lay in the reclining Venuses of Giorgione, Titian and other Venetian painters. Paolina's pose was a development of these, which Canova had already experimented with in at least two paintings as early as the late 1780s and early 1790s. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
In Which Museum Nov 12, 2007
The Three Philosophers by Giorgione ... Del Piombo was a Venetian painter who studied under Bellini and Giorgione and was also influenced by Michelangelo ... When 20-year-old Titian painted this of the resurrected Christ with Mary Magdalen (1511-1512), he created the scene with an original interpretation that stresses the importance of light and landscape (as had his master Giorgione). (Suite101.com)
'Dürer and Italy': A master's impact on Renaissance art May 19, 2007
In Venice none of the major painters remained untouched by him: from Giovanni Bellini, Cima and Vittore Carpaccio to Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese. By the mid-16th century, when Giorgio Vasari published his "Lives," D. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The Foundation for Italian Art & Culture to Hold Gala Event Celebrating the 2006 FIAC Excellency Awards at The Racquet & Tennis Club, New York, November 28 Nov 28, 2006
He has curated numerous exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art including "Raphael and America," "Lorenzo Lotto," "Virtue y: Leonardo's Ginevra de Benci," the Renaissance "Portraits of Women," and his most recent "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting." In addition to his extensive curatorial background and his many awards, Dr. Brown's strong interest in promoting Italian art in the United States may be also recognized at Georgetown University where he has been... (PR Newswire)
Tweaking antiquity Aug 25, 2006
In "Old Woman", from the early 16th century, the painter Giorgione bucked current trends in commissioned portraits to show how time weighed on one comtemporary face ... That balancing act is evident in the National Gallery of Art exhibit "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting." Among the many beautiful early 16th-century Italian paintings to be seen here are quite a few that have not been seen around here at all ... It's interesting to see the extent to which the... (Howard County Times, MD)
Italian Renaissance comes alive... Aug 20, 2006
Then, at the turn of the 16th century, artists began to use new techniques of tone contrast - evident in many of Titian's portraits - and the chiaroscuro by Leonardo da Vinci and Giorgione. The period known as the "High Renaissance" represents the culmination of the earlier periods, namely the accurate representation of figures rendered with credible motion and decorous style. (Korea Herald, Korea)
NGA curator sheds light on Venetian exhibit 'This is a show about personalities as much as it is a show about art.' David Alan Brown Curator of Italian Paintings at The National Gallery of Art in Washington Jul 27, 2006
The discussion revolved around what he, as the curator of the current NGA exhibit "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting," found most gratifying, important and challenging about this recent endeavor ... Signed catalogs of the "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting" exhibit are available at the The Wounded Bookshop, 109 Amelia St., Fredericksburg. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Show reveals relationships Jul 27, 2006
Pastoral Concert' by Titian is on view as part of 'Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting' at The National Gallery of Art through Sept. 17 ... Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting,' at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, explores the relationships among 16th-century Venetian painters ... The work, now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, is part of the sensational 16th-century exhibit "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and... (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Modiglianis women Jul 9, 2006
The art of Botticelli, Correggio, Giorgione seeped into him and marinated him with its gentle flavours ... While the seated women are clearly descended from Botticelli s madonnas, the sprawling nudes can trace their heritage back to the Renaissance Venuses of Giorgione and Titian that he discovered in Venice. (The Sunday Times)
Uncovering secrets (Deborah K. Dietsch) Jun 24, 2006
Many of their secrets are revealed for the first time in "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting," the new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art ... "We know that they were innovative," Ms. Walmsley says, "but to see their innovations from the underdrawings to the paint layers showed me that the innovations were more extensive than I thought. The technical examinations make you appreciate their creative process even more." One of the most experimental paintings in... (Washington Times)
Paintings' X-ray reveals original idea of artists Jun 21, 2006
An X-ray and infrared analysis of the portrait called 'Laura' by the Venetian artist Giorgione indicates that at one stage she may have been wearing a round-necked dress instead of the present transparent veil across her chest ... "The repeated changes to the woman's costume show Giorgione in the process of inventing a daring new type of image: The seductive female," an explanatory panel concludes. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Scratching art's surface Jun 20, 2006
An X-ray and infrared analysis of the portrait called Laura by the Venetian artist Giorgione indicates that at one stage she may have been wearing a round-necked dress instead of the present transparent veil across her chest ... "The repeated changes to the woman's costume show Giorgione in the process of inventing a daring new type of image: the seductive female," an explanatory panel concludes ... "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting" will be at the National... (USA Today -- Tech)
Venice stars: Picture-perfect Jun 16, 2006
Four Supreme Court justices do not a quorum make, but their presence certainly added cachet to Wednesday's black-tie preview of "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting" -- the latest star-studded National Gallery of Art exhibit, opening to the public Sunday under sponsorship of the Bracco Group, an Italian pharmaceutical and diagnostic-imaging firm ... Patrick Leahy was more taken by Giorgione's portrait called "La Vecchia," a portrait of an aging older woman that... (Washington Times, DC)
Remarks by First Lady Laura Bush During a Tour of the Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting Exhibit With Mrs. Leila Castellaneta, Wife of the Ambassador Giovanni Castellaneta Jun 15, 2006
I hope a lot of you will come out to see it. It's a show that's been in the works for a long time, according to the curator, David Brown. (PR Newswire)
Museum mystery comes to life May 12, 2006
A few letters in, we realize that Gardner herself was not above smuggling, urging Berenson to sneak a Giorgione with him from Italy. The film dips in and out of those story lines (Gardner's life, the whereabouts of the painting, the encomiums for Vermeer), producing unexpected dimensions of tonal, emotional, and psychological depth. (Boston Globe -- Living)
- Adam Nicolson Mar 11, 2006
It is the planet painted by Giorgione and by Rubens around his chateau at Steen, of Edmund Spenser and As You Like It, the same landscape as Philip Sidney's shepherd wandered over in the 1580s, telling himself "My sheep are thoughts" and bewailing his sorrow among the "fair hills of fruitless love" ... Giorgione's colour-drenched landscapes are also tense with an air of mysterious and disturbing threat. (Guardian Unlimited)
Czanne, reclusive 19th century genius, gets recognition he craved a century on Feb 15, 2006
Between the 1870s and his death C;zanne explored the theme of naked bathers in about 200 works, inspired by his love of the Renaissance and the studies he made in the Louvre of the likes of Titian and Giorgione. Never particularly concerned by physical beauty, C;zanne's bathers are more often than not a bit lumpy, deformed even. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Review: 'Big Book' is for artful resolutions Jan 1, 2006
Take page 368, for example, where the theme is "The Body." You're about to learn that while art focused on the ideal male form comes from the classic Greek period and was revived by Renaissance artists Donatello and Michelangelo and others, the reclining-female tradition originated later, probably with another Renaissance master, Giorgione. As Wilkins suggests in his neat, efficient introduction, use the book the way you'd like. (CNN -- Showbiz)
