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The Republic has a long tradition of workshops who which produced works influenced by Byzantine icons. The city’s artists who formed associations came under the influence of those from nearby Padua. They introduced oil painting into to the city , and the works of Leonardo were also influential . The Venetians absorbed the new ideas and techniques and developed a new style of painting.  Jacopo Bellini (1400–1470) is considered to be the founder of the Venetian School which was characterized by the use of color and a love of light to create works which have remarkable environments. His sons Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, and his son-in-law Andrea Mantegna, also produced masterpieces. Bellini’s workshop trained many great artists. These included Titian (1498-1575) and Giorgione (c. 1477/8–1510). They are considered to have increased the portrayal of landscapes in painting , and they achieved great effects by organizing colors in evocative ways. Titian who lived to a great age was noted for his daring compositions. The Venetian School because of the city’s liberal atmosphere were able to paint nudes and also erotic paintings.  A good example of this openess is Titian’s Venus from 1538. Titian became court painter of the Hapsburg Court of Charles V , and he helped to spread the ideas and techniques of the Venetian School across Europe. Among the other great painters that lived and worked in the Republic were Tintoretto (1518–1594),and he helped to develop the Mannerist School which prefigured Baroque Art.  Venice also had a great an extraordinary architectural tradition as seen represented in the magnificent both St Mark’s Cathedral and the piazza. Many great architects worked in the city in the sixteenth century such as the great Palladio who is one of the most important domestic significant Venetians architects of all time. There also emerged a school of sculpture in the city that interpreted the classical tradition in a poetic and sensitive style. Venice made a great significant contribution to art, architecture , and sculpture especially in the 16th century and it is regarded as one of the great centres centers of the Renaissance, the equal of Rome and Florence. Moreover, the city was to become one of the centres centers of European art until the 18th century <ref>Brown, Patricia Fortini. Painting and history in Renaissance Venice (London, Blackwell, 1984), p 113</ref>.