M IMMO. The oarliest reln•esentative of this school was Antonio da Murano (c.1435), who worked in common with a German, Johannes Alemannus. A greater influence than the Ger man was exercised by the Umbrian painter Gentile da Fabriano upon Murano and its chief representatives, the Vivarini family. The most prominent figures in early Venetian art belonged to the Bellini family• -Jacopo (d.1470), a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano, his sons Gentile and especially Giovanni (d.151()), through whom the Paduan influence came to Venice. Adopting the oil technique, introduced by Antonello da Mes sina, Giovanni Bellini laid the foundation of the greatness of the Venetian school. Of his pupils. Giorgiune (d.1511) evolved the High Renaissance in Venice, and Titian brought it to its most per fect development. Other important pupils of Bellini were Cima da Conegliano, Marco Basaiti, and Vincenzo Catena, who may all be classed with the Early Renaissance, and Palma Vecchio; Lorenzo Lotto was influenced by him. Among Giorgione's many pupils was Sebastiano del Piombo, among Titian's Paris Bordone, among ]'alma's Bonifazio Veronese and Rocco Marconi. Jacopo Bassano (d.1591), a pupil .of Bonifazio. developed genre and landscape to a high per fection.
The Renaissance lasted longer in Venice than elsewhere. During the second half of the fif
teenth century it produced, besides some of those mentioned above, such artists as Tintoretto, the dramatic• talent of the school, and Veronese, the principal decorator. Even in the declining Re naissance its artists like Padovanino and Palma Giovane were better than those elsewhere, and during the eighteenth century Venice produced good painters of its own life and scenery in Longhi, Canaletto, and Guardi, and one master of the first rank in Tiepolo. Its influence extended to Venetian possessions on the mainland, where in the sixteenth century appeared men like Por denone, and helped to form the schools of Brescia and Vicenza. It twice exercised determinative influence upon Spanish painting, upon the Flem ish through Rubens in the seventeenth, and upon the English through Reynolds in the eighteenth. For a more detailed account of the history see PAINTING, section on The Renuisslnee; see also the names of the individual artists mentioned.
Consult: Berenson. Venetian Painters of the Renaissance (New York. 1 S94 ) ; Crowe and Cava leasel le, History of Painting in Yorthern Italy (London, I87I). and the authorities cited in FLORENTINE SCHOOL OF PAINTING.