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Carpaccio
UFO arrivals seem imminent in the glowing skies of Carpaccio's gruesome Cruci-
fixion and Glorification of the Ten Thousand Martyrs of Mount Ararat (Room 2).
Tintoretto
The Venetian Renaissance master's Creation of the Animals (Room 6) is a fantast-
ical bestiary suggesting God put forth his best efforts inventing Venetian seafood
(no argument here).
Titian
His 1576 Pietà (Room 6) was possibly finished posthumously by Palma il Giovane,
but notice the smears of paint Titian applied with his bare hands and the column-
base self-portrait.
Veronese
Paolo Veronese's freshly restored Feast in the House of Levi (Room 10) was ori-
ginally called Last Supper, until Inquisition leaders condemned it for showing
dogs and drunkards, among others, cavorting with Apostles. Veronese refused to
change a thing besides the title.
Portrait Galleries
Lock eyes with Lorenzo Lotto's soul-searching Portrait of a Young Scholar, Rosal-
ba Carriera's brutally honest self-portrait and Pietro Longhi's lovestruck violinist
in The Dance Lesson .
Sala dell'Albergo
The Accademia's grand finale is the newly restored Sala dell'Albergo, with a lav-
ishly carved ceiling, Antonio Vivarini's wrap-around 1441-50 masterpiece of
fluffy-bearded saints, and Titian's 1534-39 Presentation of the Virgin .
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