The 14th- 16th Centuries

      

The Norton Simon Museum was very organized and in every room a time period is the theme. In the 14th- 16th Century, European arts were on display, for example some of the work in this time period includes master pieces from the Early Renaissance, the High Renaissance, and the Mannerist period. There were art works from Northern and Southern Europe, many of the paintings were based on religious aspects of time and history. There were paintings from Paolo Veneziano, Giovanni Di Paolo, Palma Vecchio, Giovanni Bellini, and so many more artiste in this time period. 

^ Venus and Cupid in a Landscape.                                             Palma Vecchio                                                                               Norton Simon Museum.                                                                                This painting  is called Venus and Cupid in a Landscape, a oil painting on canvas by Palma Vecchio. Palma Vecchio modernized and regenerated Venetian paintings from the sixteenth century. He specialize in women, clothed or nude. Painted either the women is half- length or in a recumbent poses.

Cupid is the little child next to Venus, some time in the painting history the child was painted in the 1970s after it was uncovered during the restoration time. Many believe that a Northern artist may have helped to finished Palma Vecchio art work after his death. Many notice the warm flesh tone and the landscape.