Patrick Bade
Venetian Painting, Part 2
Summary
Venetian painting was a major force in the Italian Renaissance art world and the Venetian style exerted great influence upon the subsequent development of Western painting. Patrick Bade gives us a close look at all of the major players and masterpieces that came from this artistic world. Part 2 of 2.
Patrick Bade
Patrick Bade is a historian, writer, and broadcaster. He studied at UCL and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was a senior lecturer at Christie’s Education for many years and has worked for the Art Fund, Royal Opera House, National Gallery, and V&A. He has published on 19th- and early 20th-century paintings and historical vocal recordings. His latest book is Music Wars: 1937–1945.
Well, he was instrumental in changing the status of artists. He, I suppose, it’s the three greats of the High Renaissance, Leonardo Raphael, Michelangelo, but even more, Titian, because most artists would’ve just been craftsmen, as they were in the Middle Ages. But Vasari, of course, is very, very keen to promote the status of artists. And that was one of the prime reasons, I suppose, he wrote the “Lives of the Artists.”
There are different views about that.
Some, yes, Titian quite often signed his paintings. Sometimes they did, even earlier.