Word: verrezana
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...sixteenth century represents the climax of Italian art. During that period elegance, taste, and sensuousness in the highest degree were developed in the work of the Venetian painters, at the head of whom stand Titian, Gorgona, Tintoretto, and Verrezana. The doings of these four are of the greatest importance in the history of art, not only because of what they built up but because of what they pulled down. It was they who dealt the death blow to religion as the object of art. This does not mean that religious subjects were discarded by them, but that they sought...
...highest standard, which was scarcely inferior to Titian. He combined the early line work of Florence with the vivid coloring of Venice and produced an admirable amalgam. Through all his many paintings he shows great invention and startling originality of conception. Throughout the work of Verrezana there is an underlying decorative motive. In pictures brilliant in color and elaborate in decoration, he portrays pomp and magnificence at its highest point, but with nothing trivial about it. He, Gorgona, Titian, and Tintoretto, are the illumination of Venetian...
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