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Titian: His Life

Sheila Hale

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Description:Magisterial and accessible, this first definitive biography of the great Renaissance painter in over a century is a landmark achievementBorn in the mountains above Venice in the late fifteenth-century, Tiziano Vecellio-or Titian-was the greatest painter of the Italian High Renaissance, an artist whose poetic vision and mastery of oil pigments made him into an international celebrity and continues to inspire working painters to this day. He lived in a Venice that was the most populous, celebrated, and visited city in Europe, painting everything from frescos, grand altarpieces, mythological stories, and portraits that were described by his contemporaries as "mirrors of nature."More has been written about Titian than about any other Renaissance artist apart from Michelangelo. Sheila Hale's rich and monumental biography is, however, the first since 1877 to examine all contemporary accounts of Titian's life and work, and to take into account recent art historical research and scholarship, some of it previously unpublished. Her book charts the extraordinary transformation of Titian's style from the radiant minutely realised masterpieces of his youth, to the more freely painted work of his middle years, to the dark, tragic, sometimes terrifying visions of his old age. Drawing on the latest scientific examinations of his paintings, Hale seeks to explain this evolution of his methods; and, since no one person can do justice to an artist as great, protean and complex as Titian, many different voices-both contemporary and later-have been allowed free reign to explore, praise and sometimes doubt his genius. When Titian died in Venice in 1576 he was in his late eighties, and had spent the whole of his working life there, travelling as little as possible despite the clamour for his presence at the great courts of Europe. He had outlived his greatest friend Pietro Aretino, whose letters are the richest and most entertaining source of Titian's life and personality and of sixteenth-century Venice. He had witnessed the wars fought in Italy between France and the Holy Roman Emperor, the Ottoman invasions of Europe, and the threats to the Catholic church posed by the Protestant Reformation. He had become the favoured painter of both Charles V-the most powerful man in the world-and his son Philip II of Spain, who became his most important patron.Sheila Hale's masterly biography presents Titian through the story of the turbulent century in which he lived, and gives a vivid portrait of how this innovative sixteenth-century master conveyed in his paintings a kind of truth that few other artists have been able to communicate and which has fascinated Titian's admirers and followers for centuries.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Titian: His Life. To get started finding Titian: His Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Magisterial and accessible, this first definitive biography of the great Renaissance painter in over a century is a landmark achievementBorn in the mountains above Venice in the late fifteenth-century, Tiziano Vecellio-or Titian-was the greatest painter of the Italian High Renaissance, an artist whose poetic vision and mastery of oil pigments made him into an international celebrity and continues to inspire working painters to this day. He lived in a Venice that was the most populous, celebrated, and visited city in Europe, painting everything from frescos, grand altarpieces, mythological stories, and portraits that were described by his contemporaries as "mirrors of nature."More has been written about Titian than about any other Renaissance artist apart from Michelangelo. Sheila Hale's rich and monumental biography is, however, the first since 1877 to examine all contemporary accounts of Titian's life and work, and to take into account recent art historical research and scholarship, some of it previously unpublished. Her book charts the extraordinary transformation of Titian's style from the radiant minutely realised masterpieces of his youth, to the more freely painted work of his middle years, to the dark, tragic, sometimes terrifying visions of his old age. Drawing on the latest scientific examinations of his paintings, Hale seeks to explain this evolution of his methods; and, since no one person can do justice to an artist as great, protean and complex as Titian, many different voices-both contemporary and later-have been allowed free reign to explore, praise and sometimes doubt his genius. When Titian died in Venice in 1576 he was in his late eighties, and had spent the whole of his working life there, travelling as little as possible despite the clamour for his presence at the great courts of Europe. He had outlived his greatest friend Pietro Aretino, whose letters are the richest and most entertaining source of Titian's life and personality and of sixteenth-century Venice. He had witnessed the wars fought in Italy between France and the Holy Roman Emperor, the Ottoman invasions of Europe, and the threats to the Catholic church posed by the Protestant Reformation. He had become the favoured painter of both Charles V-the most powerful man in the world-and his son Philip II of Spain, who became his most important patron.Sheila Hale's masterly biography presents Titian through the story of the turbulent century in which he lived, and gives a vivid portrait of how this innovative sixteenth-century master conveyed in his paintings a kind of truth that few other artists have been able to communicate and which has fascinated Titian's admirers and followers for centuries.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Titian: His Life. To get started finding Titian: His Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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