Fifteenth Century Venice stood out of the Adriatic in a blaze of gold, ultramarine and many-colored marble. There Giovanni Bellini grew up, amidst a half-Oriental riot of clear colors. Scores of ...

When the new French envoy arrived in Venice in 1494 he was given a grand tour of the city. Bug-eyed at Venice's multicolored palaces, its works of art and its citizens' lavish hospitality, ...

One of Venice’s largest churches offers almost an anthology of grandiose Venetian painting: Bellini, Lotto, Veronese. Striking a different note is the affecting Byzantine icon of the Madonna and ...

All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from the story of Carpaccio and Bellini's narrative painting to a Venice guide for little explorers—selected by the curators Annette Hojer and ...

The Accademia houses classical paintings from the Renaissance, including pieces by Bellini and Veronese. The Guggenheim Collection features art from 20th-century masters like Picasso and Pollock.

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...

In his Guide to the Principal Pictures in the Academy of Fine Arts at Venice of 1877, Ruskin placed Carpaccio at the apex of Venice’s “classic and mythic” age. An honorary member of the Accademia, for ...

The Frist Art Museum to present Venice and the Ottoman Empire, an exhibition that explores the artistic and cultural exchange between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire over four centuries.