Feelings of the Day: To me, experiencing well done artistic endeavours are not time wasted nor squandered. They inspire me to be a better writer so I can inspire others to feel the way I do when I react to the talents of others. It matters not if it is a great book, stand-up comedy, acting, art, singing, sculpture, or clever garden gnome reenactments of the D-Day landings. What matters is that I undergo something that takes me out of myself for a moment and connects with an otherness. The paintings I saw today accomplished that.
Full Day’s Events: Another early morning and off to another destination already traveled to last night…Saint Mark’s Square! As it was 14 years ago when I was here as the sun was rising, the light and emptiness of the morning was just right. Well, almost emptiness as there were couples getting their pictures professionally taken beside the water. Most just wore nice clothes but some had fashion overload or too thin clothing not appropriate to the cold weather.
After getting back and having oatmeal, it was time to go to the Gallerie dell’Accademia. The gallery, specializing in 1400 CE to 1800 CE Venetian art, separated from the school that was here in 1879 and is now a state museum. The sections are organized chronologically, starting with the 1400’s.
The early era being religious themed did not bore me, with all that I had seen in Venice so far. They had a certain skill and feeling that elevated, no pun intended, the art. Throughout the day, the colours, techniques, subject matter, and tone were magnificent to behold.
Jacobello Del Fiore's "Trittico", 1400-1439
Maestro Di Ceneda's "Incoronazione della Vergine in Paradiso"; 1439-1484
Vittore Carpaccio's "Crocifissione e apoteosi dei diecimila martiri del monte Ararat"; 1515, 311 by 204 cm
Giovanni Bellini's "Sacra Conversazione con i SS. Francesco, Giovanni Battista, Giobbe, Domenico, Sebastiano, Ludovico detta Pala di San Giobbe", 1487, 471 by 292 cm.
Cima da Conegliano's "Pieta", 1491-1492
Jheronimus Bosch's "Visions of the Hereafter", 1505-15.
All these works in the gallery are rightfully amongst the best of the best in art. Some of the works here, that I liked a lot, were painted by Michele Giambone, Nicolo di Pietro, Vittore Carpaccio, Giovane Bellini, Cime da Conegliano, Jheronimus Bosch, Tizano Vecello, Palma Il Vecchio, Tintoretto, Bonifacio Veronese, and Leandro Bassano (to name a few).
Jacopo Tintoretto's "Saint Mark Saves the Slave from Torture", 1547-48
Bonifacio Veronese's "The Massacre of the Innocents", 1536
Bassano's "Adoration of the Shepherds", 1548
Paolo Veneziano's "The Santa Chiara Polyptych", 1335-40, tempura and gold on wood.
There was one in particular that I had not heard of, and really liked, by Giorgio Vasari, of ceiling paintings that made me shake my head in awe of his ability.
After a Hornby bar, and water, I went through the special exhibit - Copri Modeni: The Making of the Body in Renaissance Venice. This exhibit focused on the conception and journey of depicting the human body in art, science, and material goods.
Works by Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Durer, medieval medical books and apparatus, Michelangelo, Giorgione, Fantoni, Tizano, early erotica by Pietro Aretino’s Sonetti Lussuriosi (Lustful Sonnets), Carpaccio Bellini, and clothing to accentuate or diminish according to style.
Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man", 1490-47
Albrecht Durer's "Portrait of a Venetian Woman", 1505
Michelangelo Buonarroti's "Studies for the Libyan Sibyl", 1510-11
Giorgione's "The Tempest", 1508
Jacopo Fantoni's "Risen Christ", 1530
Tizano's "Venus and Adonis", 1530-55
Giovanni Bellini's "Portrait of a Humanist", 1467-74
They even had mechanical arms made for a Venetian bombardier, to compensate for limb loss while in battle.
After the exhibit I carried on with the 1750-1800 section and found a marvellous, but exaggerated, Tivoli scene by Rijckaert. Everything in the gallery was wow. Just, wow. One of THE places to go if you like art or want to try the best to see if you like it. I spent just over four hours here.
Giandomenico Tiepolo's "The Three Angels Appearing to Abraham", 1773
Alessandro Magnasco's "The Sacrilegious Theft", 1731-35, 160 by 240 cm.
Marten Rijckaert's "View of the Sibyl of Tivoli", 1587-1631
Tizianello's "Allegory", 1570-1650
Veronese's "Venice Receives the Homage of Hercules and Ceres", 1575
On the way back I picked up some 63 month aged Parmesan and some fixings to make ground pork pasta sauce with pappardelle noodles. I rested my eyes a little in the afternoon, wrote more in my travel diary, read, and made the above supper. 6.2 km, six flights, and 3 previously crossed bridges walked.
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