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Portrait of Marino Grimani
Artist: Jacopo Tintoretto (Italian, 1519–1594)
Genre: Portrait
Date: 1578
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Marino Grimani (1 July 1532, in Venice – 25 December 1605, in Venice) was the 89th Doge of Venice, reigning from 26 April 1595 until his death.
#dodge of venice#republic of venice#portrait#jacopo tintoretto#italian painter#16th century venice#landscape#marino grimani
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Venice, Queen of the Adriatic, Crowning the Lion of St. Mark, Domenico Tintoretto, ca. 1595-9
#art#art history#Domenico Tintoretto#allegory#allegorical art#Venice#Venetian School#Mannerism#Italian Mannerism#Cinquecento#Italian art#16th century art#oil on canvas#National Gallery of Ireland
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Binding on a Venetian Dogale, second half of the 16th Century.
A Dogale is a document issued by a Venetian Doge, the highest elected official in several Italian Republics.
In the collection of Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan.
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"It’s an age-old dilemma: choosing between marriage and a career. A letter from the fifteenth century provides insight into how one woman advised another on this very question.
Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558) was arguably the most prominent female intellectual in medieval Venice. She gained fame for delivering public orations in her city and was even offered a position at the Spanish court (though the Venetian Doge forbade her from accepting it). Her reputation piqued the interest of Alessandra Scala, the daughter of a Florentine chancellor. Despite being only sixteen, Alessandra was already gaining recognition for her poetry and scholarship in Greek.
The two women began corresponding, with Alessandra seemingly seeking Cassandra’s guidance on whether she should get married. Here is Cassandra’s response, written on January 18, 1492:
From your very elegant letter, I saw clearly that you did not judge ours to be a commonplace friendship (a judgment which gave me great pleasure), since you wanted not only for me to know everything about you, but also to advise you on these same matters. And so, my Alessandra, you are uncertain whether to dedicate yourself to the Muses or to a Man? On this matter, I think you must choose that to which nature made you more disposed. For Plato maintains that any advice which is received is received according to the readiness of the receiver. For this reason, it will be very easy for you to make that choice, whereas no violently imposed decision lasts forever.
Two years later, Alessandra married Michele Marullo, a Greek poet. Cassandra herself also married in 1500, but after her husband’s death in 1520, she remained in Venice, working as a director of an orphanage. Her last public speech was delivered just two years before her death at the age of 93."
A Medieval Take on Choosing Between Love and Career, Medievalists.net
#history#women in history#historyedit#Cassandra Fedele#Alessandra Scala#women's history#15th century#16th century#middle ages#renaissance#italy#italian history#venice#women writers
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This little fellow is Ms. Codex 302, a codex listing offices of the Republic of Venice in Italy, Dalmatia and the Levant, with salaries. It's minimally decorated with rubricated headings and initials, and was written in Venice between 1575 and 1650.
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The bridal jewelry. Venetian women in the 16th century, 1872
By Cesare Dell'acqua
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Regé-Jean Page as Solanio in the stage production of The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 2015).
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Relief Bust of a Young Male Saint (?), Tullio Lombardo, 1510 – 1516
#national gallery of art#chiesa di santo stefano protomartire#venezia#venice#tullio lomabrdo#art history#art#aesthethic#italian art#rinascimento#scupture#16th century
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Juno Showering Gifts on Venetia (1554-1556) by Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), oil on canvas, 365 × 147 cm, Doge's Palace, Palazzo Ducale, Venice
#juno showering gifts on venetia#paolo veronese#painting#oil on canvas#doge’s palace#palazzo ducale#venezia#juno#venice#venetia#art#fine art#mythology#greek mythology#roman mythology#mythological painting#16th century#my upload
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Filigrana Bottle (Kuttrolf), late 16th or early 17th century, Italian.
Free- and mold-blown colorless (slightly gray) glass with lattimo canes.
Getty Museum
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Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children, c. 1604-5. Painted by Lavinia Fontana, possibly the first female career artist in Western Europe.
#Lavinia Fontana#art#renaissance art#16th century#medieval#woman artist#Florence#15th century#oil painting#bologna#venice#mannerism#romanticism#museum#portraitist#altarpiece#firenze#baroque#sandro botticelli#oil on canvas
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Oil painting, ca. 1535, Italian.
Portraying the family of Arrigo Licinio.
Painted by Bernardino Licinio.
Galleria Borghese.
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The Shepherd (A Boy with a Flute), c. 1515 by Giorgione, oil on canvas 62,5x49,1 cm
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Giorgione, The Tempest, ca. 1504, oil/canvas (Galleria dell' Accademia, Venice)
The most enigmatic of Giorgione's masterpieces, The Tempest may be a representation of Silvio Vendramin (at left), of Venice's powerful Vendramin famiy, observing his own surprise birth in the middle of a woods. The story was part of a popular poem at the time of the painting's creation.
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Venice Enthroned with Justice and Peace
Artist: Paolo Caliari (Italian, 1528-1588), Known as Paolo Veronese
Date: 1575-1578
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Collection: Doge's Palace, Venice, Italy
#allegory#venetian painting#venice#justice#peace#throne#costume#laurel#female figures#paolo veronese#paolo caliari#italian painter#italian culture#16th century painting#italian renaissance#sky#steps
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Portrait of Melchior von Brauweiler (Venice 1540), by Jan van Calcar, oil on canvas, Louvre
#art#italian art#venetian school#venice#italian painter#portrait#renaissance#16th century#jan van calcar
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