The Assumption of the Virgin
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), 1515–1518
“From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.”
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Annibale Padovano (1527 – 1575):
Missa a 24 Version I: III. Credo
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Giovanni Croce (1557-1609):
Quaeramus cum pastoribus
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Standing on a chair before a crowd in a piazza, a storyteller points to a portable image that helps illustrate his story. The baroque guitar on his back and the triangle in his female assistant's hand suggest that their performance also involved music. Not everyone is absorbed in his story, however. The young lady in a bright orange dress turns her head to respond to the man in a mask, whose suspicious intentions seem to have been noticed by the wary dog in the foreground. The diverse gestures, facial expressions, and colorful attire of the audience offer a glimpse of a popular carnival activity in 18th-century Venice. The low viewpoint and the long horizontal format help the viewer to witness the event at the eye level of the depicted figures, which adds to the sense of reality of the painted scene
The Storyteller by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1773/1777, Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX)
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