The Art Of Venice Italy

Venice Italy is a beautiful coastal city known for its unique waterway transportation system and its romantic Italian way of life. The city is ruled by boats rather than cars, and by gondolas rather than taxis. This makes for far less pollution than in regular cities of the same size. Venice is located in the Gulf of Venice in the Northern Adriatic Sea. Its canal system makes it one of the most popular tourist destinations in Italy and all over the world. Venice Italy played an important role in the development of painting during the Renaissance era. Venetian paintings focused on the use of color more so than they did line. The Venetian masters like Titian and Tintoretto were the first to explore the expressive nature of color, and these discoveries led to the highly expressive plush colors of the Dutch masters and eventually to the worlds of Color Field Painting and Abstract Expressionism centuries later. Once cannot underestimate the influence that Venetian painting had over the art world. Venetian art was highly influence by trade with the Middle East. As a popular trade port, Venetians were exposed to Byzantine and other Mediterranean paintings that focused on color and pattern more so than on line and perspective. Whereas Florentine artists began exploring perspective

and modeling with lines during the pre-Renaissance period, Venetian artists began experimenting with pattern and color to express the human quality of people in paintings. These two different schools of thought, the line-based and the color-based, were the basis of artistic arguments for centuries to come, and they are even considered dichotomous today. When one looks at the history of art, one can almost always classify a painter’s work as descendent for the Florentine line-based school or the Venetian color-based school. Though these influences are not cut and dry, it is a amazing that artistic developments that happened so long ago are still ingrained in the artists of today.