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Article: Venice, Art in
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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VENICE, ART IN
VENICE, ART IN.
In about 1500 Venetian art bore an intimate relationship to its economic and political context. The traditional society of the Republic of Venice remained tied to the past, its conservative ideology reflected in well-established artistic conventions. Leading painters such as Giovanni Bellini (c. 1438
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1516) worked mainly for local patrons, producing predominantly religious paintings of well-defined types (such as half-length devotional paintings and altarpieces). Their work was essentially public and patriotic in nature and reflected the nexus of religious and political values common to the wider populace of the city. The Venetian painter or ...