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Titian :

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Titian :

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his life /

Sheila Hale.

First U.S. edition.

xxiii, 832 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :

illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical table ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 789-802) and index.

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 rules 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.

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A biography of the Venetian artist, Titian and the evolution of his paintings.

Titian,approximately 1488-1576.

Painters-- Italy-- Venice, Biography.

Hale, Sheila.

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