The Genius of Venice, 1500-1600 by Royal Academy, edited by Martineau Jane and Charles Hope

ISBN: 9780297783237

Orion Publishing Co., 24 November 1983

Paperback, 416 pages, 

The Genius of Venice (1500-1600) is an ambitious exhibition – a scholarly and magnificent survey of Venetian painting and its sister sculpture, drawing and print-marking, at the time of their greatest and most profoundly influential achievements during the sixteenth century. If for many people Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese are amongst the greatest of all painters, it is in part due to the genius of the city in which they lived and worked. Venice was the centre of a great commercial empire situated between East and West, possessing a model constitution to which other states looked with envy and admiration. Its unique, extravagant beauty stimulated artists to adopt and entirely original approach to painting.