Tour: Venetian Painting in the Later Sixteenth Century

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By the middle of the sixteenth century, a new generation of painters began to challenge Titian's dominance over Venetian art. The three most important artists to do so were Tintoretto, Veronese, and Jacopo Bassano. (continue)

Captions

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1	Jacopo Tintoretto, Portrait of a Man as Saint George, 1540/1550
2	Jacopo Tintoretto, A Procurator of Saint Mark's, 1575/1585
3	Jacopo Tintoretto, The Madonna of the Stars, second half 16th century
4	Veronese, Rebecca at the Well, 1580/1585
5	Veronese, The Martyrdom and Last Communion of Saint Lucy, c. 1582
6	Jacopo Bassano, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, 1545
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7	Jacopo Bassano, The Annunciation to the Shepherds, probably 1555/1560