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Pietro Liberi (1605–1687), painter, active in Venice after 1643; Bernardino Licinio (c. 1489–1565), painter of Venice and Lombardy; Pietro Lombardo (1435–1515), architect and sculptor, active in Venice; Baldassare Longhena (1598–1682), architect, born and worked in Venice; Pietro Longhi (1701/2–1785), painter, born in Venice
The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy.It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro.
Ca' Rezzonico (Italian pronunciation: [ˈka (r)retˈtsɔːniko]) is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displays paintings by the leading Venetian painters of the period, including Francesco Guardi and Giambattista ...
Punta della Dogana is an art museum in one of Venice's old customs buildings, the Dogana da Mar.It also refers to the triangular area of Venice where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal, and its collection of buildings: the church of Santa Maria della Salute, (hence the area is also known as Punta della Salute), the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, and Dogana da Mar at the triangle's tip.
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]
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Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia. The Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia is an art collection and museum in Venice, Italy. [1] Situated inside the Palazzo Querini Stampalia, in the sestiere of Castello, on the left bank of the Grand Canal, it includes famous paintings as a self- portrait and Adam and Eve by Palma Giovane, a Sacra Conversazione by Palma Vecchio and a Madonna and Child by Bernardo Strozzi.
The Palazzo was purchased by the Fiat Group in 1983, under the late chairman Gianni Agnelli, and it underwent a complete restoration overseen by architect Gae Aulenti. The group's aim was to transform Palazzo Grassi into an exhibition hall for the visual arts. It continues to be used as an art gallery today. [5]