Member Lecture: Venetian Renaissance Realities
March 18, 2017
10:30 AM
William Barcham, Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology
Between about 1460 and 1520, painters in Venice generated a remarkable transformation, abandoning gold ground painting for a natural-looking reality. They realized glowing flesh and shadowed drapery folds by exploiting translucent properties of oil paints on the new materials of linen and canvas. And in privileging radiantly saturated colors over matte tones, they conferred authenticity on their religious portraiture.
This lecture has been made possible by the Humber Lecture endowment.
This lecture does not include admission to the exhibition.
Between about 1460 and 1520, painters in Venice generated a remarkable transformation, abandoning gold ground painting for a natural-looking reality. They realized glowing flesh and shadowed drapery folds by exploiting translucent properties of oil paints on the new materials of linen and canvas. And in privileging radiantly saturated colors over matte tones, they conferred authenticity on their religious portraiture.
This lecture has been made possible by the Humber Lecture endowment.
This lecture does not include admission to the exhibition.
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