Venetian painting was a major force in Italian Renaissance painting and beyond. Beginning with the work of Giovanni Bellini and his brother Gentile Bellini and their workshops, the major artists of th
Titian, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist c. 1515; this religious work also functions as an idealized portrait of a beauty, a Venetian genre developed by Titian, supposedly often using Venetian courtesans as models.
Giovanni Bellini, San Zaccaria Altarpiece, 1505, a late work, San Zaccaria, Venice
Paolo Veneziano, polyptych altarpiece with Coronation of the Virgin, c. 1350
Carlo Crivelli, The Annunciation, with St. Emidius, 1486
Jacobello del Fiore was a Venetian painter in the late fourteenth century and early fifteenth century. His early work is in the Late Gothic style popularized by Altichiero da Verona and Jacopo Avanzi,
Del Fiore's Virgin and Child, c. 1410, Museo Correr
Jacobello del Fiore: Stories from the Life of St. Lucy, Fermo, Pinacoteca Civica
Jacobello del Fiore: Madonna and Child
Jacobello del Fiore: Crucifixion, 1395–1400, now in Toledo, Ohio