Quick info:
- Type of event: Online
- Date: 2nd & 3rd September
- Time: 12pm-6.30pm
- Location: Online
- Meeting point: n/a
- Cost: Free
- Booking instructions: Venice in Blue Online Conference Tickets, Thu 2 Sep 2021 at 12:00 | Eventbrite
At the turn of the sixteenth century, blue paper emerged as a chosen support for drawing and printing in Venice. Artists including Vittore Carpaccio (ca. 1460–ca. 1526), Lorenzo Lotto (ca. 1480–1556), Titian (ca. 1488–1576), Sebastiano del Piombo (ca. 1485–1547), and Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/19–1594) utilised this support for drawings to explore the tonal effects of light and shade on colour. This conference explores the use of blue paper (carta azzurra; carta turchina; carta cerulea) for the purposes of drawing and printing in Venice in the first half of the sixteenth century.