You can organize tours that aim to “search” the various temples and museums of Venice for your favorite Venetian masters. For example, one of the most disturbing and stroppy is Jacopo Tintoretto. Whose works in considerable numbers are still, fortunately, in the so-called sieve, i.e., the places for which they were painted. It is therefore safe to first of all suggest a tour of the cycle of Tintoretto’s paintings in the school of the brotherhood of St. Roch; then walk to the nearby church of San Polo, where to this day hangs a canvas of “The Last Supper” by this talented master of stunning success. Or walk through the grounds of Vittore Carpaccio. This self-absorbed storyteller and balladeer who, in a cycle of paintings painted for the Brotherhood of San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, preaches Christian values and the deeds of the saints, painting self-consciously Venetian landscapes and costumes.
Or find paintings and works by Vecelio Titian, an Italian painter, the greatest representative of the Venetian school of the High and Late Renaissance. Titian’s name is on a par with such Renaissance artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo. Titian painted paintings on biblical and mythological subjects, became famous as a portraitist. Titian was not even thirty years old when he was recognized as the best painter of Venice. The artist is sometimes called “Tiziano da Cadore” after his birthplace; he is also known as Titian the Divine. You can view his most famous painting, The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Assunta), commissioned for the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, or see Fresco Fondaco dei Tedeschi’s Judith or Justice in the Galleria Franchetti in Ca d’Oro, as well as the equally impressive Christ Bearing the Cross in the Scuola San Rocco.
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Our guides can put together any individual program for you. The program is booked in advance, for detailed design of unique itineraries.
