The Venetian Alternative Prof. Bergstein Fall 2013

View of Venice Petrarch, 1304-1374

Mediterranean Sea Venetian trade-routesGreen = to VeniceRed = from Venice

Roman ruins

Venetian treasures, S. Marco

Chalice of the Patriarchs Byzantine, Constantinople = Istanbul Treasury, San Marco

Basilica of Saint Mark = San Marco 828-14th century AD

San Marco in “acqua alta” = high water

“Lotto” Carpet, Western Anatolia, 16th century

Lorenzo Lotto, 1547, Family of Giovanni della Volta

Textiles

Japanese Textile, Nara

Venetian Painting ca. 1410

Italian Brocade ca. 1400

Carpet from a Synagogue 15th centuryIslamic Carpet

Persian (Iranian) Carpet

Syrian Bowl Venice, Treasury of San Marco

Mosque LampGlassVeniceTreasury

Venetian Glass15-16th centuries

Venetian Mirrors18th century

Giorgione, “Sleeping Venus” 1509-10 Dresden, Museum of PaintingsGirolamo Marcello, married 1510

Giorgione, “Sleeping Venus” 1509-10Girolamo Marcello, married 1510

Titian, “Venus” of Urbino, 1538 Florence, Uffizi

Urbino

Titian, “Venus” of Urbino, 1538 Florence, Uffizi

Detail, “Venus” of Urbino

Giorgione, ca. 1509-10 Titian, 1538

Titian, Rape of Europa, 1562, Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

mimesis >>> mimetic brushstrokes

Titian, Self-portrait Titian, Portrait of Pietro Aretino

“Titian --- where are you now?”