This research project aims to gain an in-depth analysis of Venetian Humanism giving evidence to facts, institutions and individual characters playing a significant role in relation to the development of new iconographies in Venetian painting. Particular attention has been given to Neoplatonic philosophy (the debate on the immortality of the soul); the new philology introduced by Ermolao Barbaro; the fortune of pastoral poetry (Theocritus and Sannazaro); the vernacular language (Bembo’s Asolani). Specific investigation into the art of Bellini, Giorgione and the young Titian has been undertaken, with particular attention to the representation of landscape, portrait and allegoryIl lavoro consiste in un’analisi approfondita del rinnovamento cul...