'Venezia 500: The Gentle Revolution of Venetian Painting' at The Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Venetian, Christ Carrying the Cross, c. 1515, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, © KHM-Museumsverband
The exhibition is devoted to the groundbreaking innovations in Venetian Renaissance painting, with lasting effects that continued to resonate far into European modernism. It presents 15 masterpieces from the Munich collection and around 70 international loans, focusing on portraits and landscapes from the first half of the sixteenth century as the most eloquent examples of the characteristics and achievements of the flourishing Venetian school. The leading masters brought a previously unprecedented intensity to their explorations of the essence of humanity and nature and their interrelations. This explains the attraction and the relevance of these portraits and landscapes, which will be presented in themed groups and in juxtapositions of drawings and sculptures that address the contexts of their creative origins and contemporary readings.
Works by Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Palma Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto, Titian and Tintoretto are on display: Their subtle representations of individuality oscillate between the real and the ideal, between representative and lyrical portraits, and their atmospheric landscapes quickly became established as pictorial motifs in their own right. The favourable local constellation of well-acquainted artists and patrons who showed at the same time a high degree of sensitivity and openness made striking innovations possible. The exhibition at the Alte Pinakothek casts light on this eagerly experimental period of upheaval.
27/10/23 — 4/2/24
Giorgio da Castelfranco (Giorgione) (1473/74–1510), Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1505/10, Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich.
Giorgio da Castelfranco (Giorgione) (1473/74–1510), Boy with Arrow, c. 1505, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, © KHM-Museumsverband
Jacopo Negretti, gen. Palma il Vecchio (c. 1480–1528), Portrait of a Young Woman in Blue Dress with Fan, after 1514, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, © KHM-Museumsverband
Bernardino Licinio (c. 1485 – after 1549/before 1565), Portrait of a Woman, c. 1520, Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich
Tiziano Vecellio (Titian) (c. 1488/90–1576), Young Woman at Her Toilet, c. 1515, Paris, Musée du Louvre, © bpk | RMN – Grand Palais | Thierry Le Mage.
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480–1556), Portrait of Giovanni della Volta with His Wife and Children, 1547, London, The National Gallery, © The National Gallery, London.
Sebastiano Luciani (Sebastiano del Piombo) (c. 1485–1547), Portrait of Ferry Carondelet with His Secretaries, c. 1510/12; Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
Jacopo Negretti (Palma il Vecchio) (c. 1480–1528), Virgin and Child with St Roch and Lucia, c. 1513/15, Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich.
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1435–1516), St Jerome Reading in a Landscape, c. 1480/85, London, The National Gallery, © The National Gallery, London.
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1435–1516), Malinconia, c. 1485/95, Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia, © Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia/su concessione del Ministerio della Cultura.
Jacopo Negretti, (Palma il Vecchio) (c. 1480–1528), attribution, Daphnis, c. 1513/15, Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1435–1516), Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unknown Saint, 1500–1505, Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia, © Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia/su concessione del Ministerio della Cultura