How did paintings by Tintoretto and other Venetian Renaissance artists get their special glow? Using an electron microscope, Barbara Berrie, senior conservation scientist at the National Gallery of ...

Tintoretto was the ultimate Venetian. Venice practically oozes the spirit of the artist, whose giant and somewhat manic artworks cover a substantial portion of the floating city’s most opulent ...

In April, a critic for the National Review took the National Gallery of Art to task for its Tintoretto exhibition, arguing that it was an insufficiently comprehensive overview of the great ...

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Madonna of the Rosary with Angels," signed and dated on the pedestal: JOA. BATTA: TIEPOLVZ.F. / ...1735, oil on canvas, 96¾ in. by 61½ in. Draped in a flowing regal red ...

What exactly is Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), that 18th-century Venetian master of illusionistic ceiling painting, doing today in Stuttgart of all places, spiritual home of the automotive ...

There are several contenders to be Venice’s greatest artist, but a major German art museum is in no doubt about who should take the top spot. The State Gallery in Stuttgart has organized an Old Master ...

During the 1700s, when rococo ruled Europe, Venice had become its royal city. Carpaccio (1455-1525) had combined the bustle of Venetian business with Renaissance grandeur; Titian (1477-1576) and ...

Venetian painting has long been famous, and so much has been commented on. Early in the nineteenth century, Hegel, who never got to Italy, offered some evocative notes. Later in that century, Walter ...

If you always wondered, the answer is yes: The elegant appetizer known as carpaccio (sliced raw beef dressed with olive oil and lemon juice, but not too much) was named for Vittore Carpaccio, the 16th ...

To Nietzsche, seeking a synonym for music, the answer was “always and only Venice.” But it is a painter’s city. Lodged between water and sky, the seaport that calls itself Serenissima is an unending ...