Titian and Rubens: Power, Politics and Style - Softcover

Goldfarb, Hilliard T.; Etc.; Freedburg, David; Marques, Manuela B. Mena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096484754X ISBN 13: 9780964847545

Publisher: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1998

Synopsis

Aiming to bring an understanding of the contexts of treasures of the past closer to contemporary concerns, three experts discuss Titian's Europa and Rubens's Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, as well as Rubens's Rape of Europa from the Prado Museum and Titian's Francesco Maria della Rovere from the Uffizi. By exploring the dynamic relationship between art and power and how both artists manipulated their style to express the political power of their clients - no less a relevant issue today - an important era comes to life for today's readers.

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HILLIARD T. GOLDFARB, Gardner's Chief Curator of Collections, focuses on the works of Titian, discussing the stylistic and emblematic means by which Titian asserted the power of his clients and his own stature as the "painter to princes." DAVID FREEDBERG, Professor of Art History at Columbia University, examines Rubens's profound emulation of and debt to Titian during his later career and its political context. MANUELA B. MENA marqués, Curator of Spanish Paintings of the Eighteenth Century and Goya at the Prado Museum, describes Spanish patronage and the influence of both artists in Spain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 096484754X
• ISBN 13: 9780964847545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128