DAM Once in a Lifetime Experience - The Glory of Venice
Since the beginning of October 2016, the Denver Art Museum has been host to an amazing exhibition of colorful creativity which helped Venice to become internationally known throughout and after the Renaissance period. The artists of this period in Venice used color and depth in a way that it had rarely been used before. Mostly religious in nature, many of the paintings were probably commissioned by the Catholic Church and one can see the true passion that the artists had when painting them. The Triumph of Venice by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni We made a visit to see "The Glory of Venice" about a month ago and it is one of the best displays of art that I have seen from this time period. Dating from the mid 1400s to the early 1500s, it is some of Venice's greatest work. It contains about 50 pieces, 19 of which come from Venice's Gallerie dell'Accademia, which houses some of the greatest collections of Venetian Renaissance art in the world. It also includes works fr