Tour: Giorgione and the High Renaissance in Venice

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A search for luminous color and intuitive responses to nature—a pursuit, above all, of the sensuous—occupied painters in Venice for centuries. While artists in central Italy concentrated on the more intellectual aspects of form and structure, Venetian painters, beginning with Giovanni Bellini and his students, focused their attention on the surface of things, on color and texture, even on the paint itself.

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Captions

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1	Giovanni Bellini, The Infant Bacchus, probably 1505/1510
2	Giorgione, The Holy Family, probably c. 1500
3	Giorgione, The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1505/1510
4	Giorgione and Titian, Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman, c. 1510
5	Lorenzo Lotto, Allegory of Virtue and Vice, 1505
6	Sebastiano del Piombo, Portrait of a Young Woman as a Wise Virgin, c. 1510
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7	Dosso Dossi, Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast, c. 1520