Palma Vecchio

Palma Vecchio (1480?-1528) was a leading painter of the Italian Renaissance in Venice. As a contemporary of Titian, his short career unfolded at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Golden Age of Venetian art which includes the work of Palladio, Tintoretto, Sansovino and Veronese. Like Giorgione and the young Titian, Palma participated in a crucial period of transition from an Early to a High Renaissance pictorial style in Venice. Despite his high reputation among. British collectors and museums since at least the nineteenth century, no book has ever previously been published in Eng...