(Top) Veronese directly inherited Titian: Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto, 169x137 cm, Accademia Gallery, Venice. (Bottom) Tintoretto opposed Titian's art: The Creation of St. Mark, 405x405 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.

Following Titian, the situation in Venetian art saw Veronese directly inheriting Titian’s tradition, while Tintoretto directly opposed his art. After 1540, under the influence of foreign Florentine painter Francesco Salviati (who was in Venice from 1539 to 1541), Venetian painting opened up to Mannerism. The new generation of Venetian painters, Tintoretto, became the most representative Mannerist of the Venetian school, alongside his contemporary Veronese, who helped open the way for Baroque painting. After 1550, the main force in Venetian painting fell into the hands of these two major painters, Tintoretto and Veronese. At that time, Venice’s external political power was also gradually declining.