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Calcagnetti (Chopine)- Correr Museum. A chopine is a type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Chopines were originally used as a patten, clog, or overshoe to protect shoes and dresses from mud and street soil. In Venice both courtesans and patrician women frequently wore chopines c. 1400 to 1700.
Two Venetian Ladies is an oil on panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio. The painting, believed to be a quarter of the original work, was executed around 1490 and shows two unknown Venetian ladies. The top portion of the panel, called Hunting on the Lagoon is in the Getty Museum, and another matching panel is missing.
The Venetian school had a great influence on subsequent painting, and the history of later Western art has been described as a dialogue between the more intellectual and sculptural/linear approach of the Florentine and Roman traditions, and the more sensual, poetic, and pleasure-seeking of the colourful Venetian school. [56]
A rare, captivating U.S. exhibition of Paolo Veneziano painting centers on personal altarpieces, which were a brisk business in plague-ridden Venice.
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The museum "houses an impressive selection of modern art. Its picturesque setting and well-respected collection attract some 400,000 visitors per year", [1] making it "the most-visited site in Venice after the Doge's Palace". [2] Works on display include those of prominent Italian futurists and American modernists.
Palma Vecchio is known mainly for religious scenes and portraits of women, and Gould (1975) thinks this example of the latter group characteristic of his style. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The subject is a young woman of that "opulent voluptuous type" which was much admired in Venice at the beginning of the sixteenth century, and was represented in works by ...
Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman, 1505. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. 35 x 26 cm. Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman is a small bust-length oil on elm panel painting by the German artist Albrecht Dürer from 1505. [1] It was executed, along with a number of other high-society portraits, during his second visit to Italy.