An exhibition throwing light
on the 16th-century Venetian school opens at the Uffizi gallery
in Florence on Tuesday.
The exhibition presents 48 drawings from the collections
of the Florentine museum and the Ashmolean in Oxford under the
title 'The revenge of colour over line'.
It focuses on the juxtaposition between the Venetian
painters' predominant use of colour and the tradition of drawing
typical of Tuscan painting during the 1500s, observed by
16th-century Italian artist and art historian Giorgio Vasari in
his 'Life of Titian'.
The sketches on display show how in reality the Venetian
artists, and in general all the ones influenced by Venetian
culture, used a variety of drawing techniques, establishing a
regular dialogue with the drawing tradition of central Italy but
without giving up their own idea of the supremacy of colour over
line.
The exhibition runs until January 15.
photo: Titian, Danae and the Golden Shower (1544-45)
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