Titian : his life / Sheila Hale.
Publication details: London : HarperPress, 2012.Description: xxi, 832 p., [32] of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, geneal. table, ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780007175826 (hbk.)
- 0007175825 (hbk.)
- 759.5 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 759.5 HAL | Available | 053190 |
Includes bibliography (p. 789-802) and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I 1488/90-1518 -- 1.Mountains -- 2.The Most Triumphant City -- 3.The Painter's Venice -- 4.Myths of Venice -- 5.The Fondaco, Giorgione and the Modern Manner -- 6.Miracles and Disasters -- 7.`Some Little Bit of Fame' -- 8.`His Industrious Brush': Pentimenti and Portraits -- 9.Sacred and Profane -- pt. II 1518-1530 -- 1.Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara -- 2.Bacchus and Ariadne -- 3.A New Doge, a River of Wine and Marriage -- 4.The Fall of a World -- 5.The Triumvirate of Taste -- 6.Caesar in Italy -- 7.The Most Beautiful Thing in Italy -- pt. III 1530-1542 -- 1.The Portrait of Cornelia -- 2.The House in Biri Grande -- 3.The Most Powerful Ruler in the World -- 4.The Venus of Urbino -- 5.The Roman Emperors -- 6.The Writers' Venice -- 7.An Old Battle and a New War -- 8.Titian in his Fifties -- pt. IV 1543-1562 -- 1.Aretino Plays Pontius Pilate -- 2.The Last Great Pope of the Renaissance -- 3.A Miracle of Nature -- 4.Rome -- 5.A Matter of Religion --
Contents note continued: 6.Augsburg -- 7.The Prince and the Painter -- 8.Venus and Adonis -- 9.The Passing of the Leviathans -- 10.The Diana Poems -- 11.The Rape of Europa -- pt. V 1562-1576 -- 1.A Factory of Images -- 2.The Spider King -- 3.The Biographer, the Art Dealer and the King's Annus Horribilis -- 4.Wars -- 5.`In This my Old Age' -- 6.Another Way of Using Colour -- 7.The Plague and the Pity.
During Titian's career, which spanned more than seventy years, he painted around five or six hundred pictures of which less than half survive. His work has been studied by generations of great artists from Rubens to Manet and he is often seen as having artistically transcended his own time. Sheila Hale not only examines his life, both personal and professional, but how his art affected his contemporaries and how it influences artists today. She also examines Venice in its context of a city at the time of the Renaissance, over shadowed artistically by Rome and Florence and growing into the famous historical city it has become.
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