Exhibit of Venetian drawings at Uffizi

(ANSA) - Florence, October 24 - 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)