The Miraculous Draught of Fishes by Jacopo Bassano

Canaletto, Ascension Day Festival at Venice, 1766, pen and brown ink with gray wash, heightened with white, over graphite, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection 1963.15.5

Venice was one of the wealthiest and most powerful city-states in Renaissance Europe, and Venetian painting was renowned for its sumptuous color and sensuous textures. Jacopo Bassano was one of the four leading painters of this period but he is less well-known today than his contemporaries Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto.