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Article: Romancing the stone; Dreamy portraits in marble from Venetian Renaissance sculptors.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- July 19, 2009
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Byline: Deborah K. Dietsch , THE WASHINGTON TIMES
During the Italian Renaissance, Venice enjoyed a golden era of painting. Artists such as Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione and Titian combined secular subject matter with atmospheric effects and vivid colors to innovate in the new medium of oils. Their brilliant canvases have long overshadowed the City of Water's three-dimensional art during the early 1500s.
A tiny but provocative exhibit at the National Gallery of Art challenges this conventional view through the work of inventive Venetian sculptors who may have influenced their more famous painter colleagues.
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