This tour concentrates on the two princes of Venetian color:
Paolo Veronese and Giambattista Tiepolo.
Veronese was a painter of extraordinary qualities with a ravishingly
decorative talent, fond of striking illusionism, shimmering colors and curious
perspectives. He spent many years decorating the church of San Sebastiano,
such a comprehensive monument to Veronese, where he left the most well
preserved fresco cycle in Venice, creating a thematically unified interior
that blurs the bounds of art and reality. The artist is buried in the church.
Not far from San Sebastiano we find the Scuola dei Carmini, a handsome
17thC building built by the baroque architect Longhena as the seat of an
ancient lay-confraternity.
The interior was decorated by Giambattista Tiepolo,
the painter who can be considered the crowning glory and the leading
artist in 18thC Venice.
We will admire his incredible group of ceiling paintings with an oustanding
airy vision of the Mother of Mercy, shimmering in silken drapery.
