Berlitz: Italy Pocket Guide by Insight Guides

Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Italy
Publisher: APA
Published: 2014-01-16T05:00:00+00:00

Giorgione’s Tempest, Accademia

Chris Coe/Apa Publications

Room 1: Dedicated to Byzantine and Gothic artworks including the 14th-century Coronation of the Madonna of Paolo Veneziano, first of the city’s great masters, and glowing with characteristic Venetian colour and texture.

Room 2: Giovanni Bellini, youngest and most gifted member of the painter family, brings gentle humanity to his Enthroned Madonna with Job and St Sebastian (1485).

Room 4: Andrea Mantegna (a brother-in-law of the Bellini family) shows why St George, the dragon-killer, became the most appropriate patron saint for England.

Room 5: Giorgione’s Tempest (1505) is one of the museum’s most cherished, most mysterious treasures – a girl calmly nursing her child in a landscape prickling with the electricity of the approaching storm. This room contains the most celebrated works.

Room 10: this is the most important of Renaissance rooms. Titian’s Pietà, a vibrant last work completed by pupil Palma il Giovane, was originally intended for his tomb in the Frari church (for more information, click here). Veronese’s Feast in the House of Levi was meant to be the Last Supper, until the Holy Inquisition complained about its ‘buffoons, drunkards, dwarfs, Germans and similar vulgarities’. Tintoretto gives full play to his dark sense of drama in the Miracle of St Mark.

Room 17: Canaletto’s immensely popular 18th-century vedute (views) of Venice were aristocratic precursors of modern postcards. In such fine works as Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Francesco Guardi managed to achieve both poetry and melancholy.

Room 20: Gentile Bellini breathes little life into his Procession on San Marco (1496), but it remains one of the museum’s most fascinating ‘photographs’ of Renaissance Venice.

Room 21: Vittore Carpaccio depicts in nine canvases the bizarre Story of St Ursula, a British princess, said to have led 11,000 virgins on a pilgrimage to Rome, all of whom were raped and slaughtered by the Huns on their way back.

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