The Most Original Modernist Painting in Venice

Falchetto che piomba sullo stormo di passeri in fuga (Hawk swooping onto the flock of sparrows in flight) (1791), by Giandomenico Tiepolo. Fresco, 175 x130 cm. Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice.

There certainly are a great number of noteworthy, deeply original paintings to see in Venice. You can find what I have identified elsewhere in COUNTERPUNCH as the first modernist work, Giorgione’s Tempest (1506). And in the churches and in the museums there are numberless Titians, Veronese, and Tintoretto’s...