Titian His Life

Name: Titian His Life
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ISBN: 9780060598761

ISBN-10: 006059876X

ISBN-13: 9780060598761

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Authors: Sheila Hale

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Born in the mountains above Venice in the late fifteenth century, Tiziano Vecellio—or Titian—was the greatest painter of the Venetian High Renaissance. A poetic visionary and a technical master of oils, he painted everything, from frescoes and grand altarpieces to mythological stories and portraits—works described by his contemporaries as "mirrors of nature." Sheila Hale's rich biography is the first since 1877 to examine all contemporary accounts of Titian's life and work as well as recent art historical scholarship, some of it previously unpublished. Her book charts the extraordinary transformation of Titian's style: from the radiant, minutely realized masterpieces of his youth, to the…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/20/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 864
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.98" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English



Introduction


A Note on Money


List of Illustrations


Titian's Family Tree


Maps



1488/90-1518



Mountains



The Most Triumphant City



The Painter's Venice



Myths of Venice



The Fondaco, Giorgione and the Modern Manner



Miracles and Disasters



'Some Little Bit of Fame'



'His Industrious Brush': Pentimenti and Portraits



Sacred and Profane



1518-1530



Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara



Bacchus and Ariadne



A New Doge, a River of Wine and Marriage



The Fall of a World



The Triumvirate of Taste



Caesar in Italy



The Most Beautiful Thing in Italy



1530-1542



The Portrait of Cornelia



The House in Biri Grande



The Most Powerful Ruler in the World



The Venus of Urbino



The Roman Emperors



The Writers' Venice



An Old Battle and a New War



Titian in his Fifties



1543-1562



Aretino Plays Pontius Pilate



The Last Great Pope of the Renaissance



A Miracle of Nature



Rome



A Matter of Religion



Augsburg



The Prince and the Painter



Venus and Adonis



The Passing of the Leviathans



The Diana Poems



The Rape of Europa



1562-1576



A Factory of Images



The Spider King



The Biographer, the Art Dealer and the King's Annus Horribilis



Wars



'In This my Old Age'



Another Way of Using Colour



The Plague and the Pity


Titian's Legacy


Notes


Bibliography


Appendix: Locations of Paintings


Index


Acknowledgements