TITIAN, TINTORETTO, VERONESE/ RIVALS IN RENAISSANCE VENICE

For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Venice's three greatest painters--Titan, Tintoretto and Veronese--o verlapped, producing mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed art history. Venice was then among Europe's richest cities, and its plentiful commissions fostered an exceptionally fertile and innovative climate. In it, the three artists--brilliant, ambiti ous and fiercely competitive--vied with one another for primacy, employing such new media as oil on canvas, with its unique expressi ve possi...[Leer más]