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Book SynopsisVenetian artistic giants of the sixteenth century, such as Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, and their contemporaries, continued to shape artistic development, tastes in collecting, and modes of display long after their own practices ended. The robust reverberation of the Venetian Renaissance spread far beyond the borders of the lagoon to inform and influence artists, authors, and collectors who spent very little or even no time in Venice proper. The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art investigates the historical resonance of Venetian sixteenth-century art and explores its afterlife and its reinvention by artists working in its shadow. Despite being a frequently acknowledged truism, the pervasive legacy of Venetian sixteenth-century art has not received comprehensive treatment in recent publication history. The broad scope of the topics covered in these essays, from Titian's profound influence on the development of landsc
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: In the Shadow of La Serenissima
Andaleeb Badiee Banta and Lindsey P. Schneider
Chapter 1: The Neurosis of Visual Legacy: Seicento Venetian Painters Confront Their Past
Taryn Marie Zarrillo
Chapter 2: "Il Prete Genovese:" Bernardo Strozzi and the Venetian CinquecentoAndaleeb Badiee Banta
Chapter 3: Titian and Tintoretto in the Sacristy of Santa Maria della Salute: a Seicento "Accademia" for Displaced Treasures of the Venetian CinquecentoAllison Sherman
Chapter 4: "A beautiful woman should break her mirror early:" The Rokeby Venus, the Venetians, and Gracián
Aneta Georgievska-Shine
Chapter 5: "A Good Friend of our Venetian Maniera:" Pietro da Cortona and Neo-Venetianism in Roman Painting after 1650
Lindsey P. Schneider
Chapter 6: Paolo Veronese Revisited: Art Collecting and Connoisseurship in Eighteenth-Century Venice
Linda Borean
Chapter 7: Antonio Corradini, the Collegio dei scultori, and the Neo-Cinquecentismo in Venice around 1720
Matej Klemenčič
Chapter 8: Displaying Objects and Performing Publics: Antonio Maria Zanetti’s Delle Antiche StatueJanna Israel
Chapter 9: The Long Shadows of Titian’s Trees
Leopoldine Prosperetti
Chapter 10: Conjuring Venetian Costume: The Influence of Cinquecento Paintings in Mariano Fortuny’s Dress Designs
Wendy Ligon Smith
Afterword: Quick to Say Good-Bye, Hard to Forget: The Long Lives of Cinquecento Venetian Pictures
Jodi Cranston
Works Cited
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