Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice - Hardcover

Frederick Ilchman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848220227 ISBN 13: 9781848220225

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

For nearly four decades in the 16th century, the careers of Venice's three greatest painters - Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese - overlapped, producing mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed the course of art history. Venice was then among Europe's richest cities, and its plentiful commissions fostered an exceptionally fertile and innovative climate. In this climate, the three artists - brilliant, ambitious and fiercely competitive - vied with each other for primacy, deploying such new media as oil on canvas, with its unique expressive possibilities, and such new approaches as a personal and identifiable 'signature style'. They also pioneered the use of easel painting, a newly portable format that led to unprecedented fame in their lifetimes. With over 150 stunning examples by the three masters and their contemporaries, ""Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese"" elucidates the technical and aesthetic innovations that helped define the uniquely rich 'Venetian style', as well as the social, political and economic context in which it flourished. The essays range from examinations of seminal new techniques to such crucial institutions as state commissions and the patronage system. Most of all, by concentrating on the lives and careers of Venice's three greatest painters, the volume paints an equally vibrant human portrait - one brimming with savage rivalry, one-upmanship, humour and passion.

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About the Author

Frederick Ilchman is Mrs. Russell W. Baker Assistant Curator of European Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Fellowships from the Fulbright program and The Metropolitan Museum of Art allowed him to conduct five years' of research in Venice on Venetian painting. He recently advised the Museo del Prado on their major Tintoretto exhibition (2007) and wrote for the catalogue.Patricia Fortini Brown is on the faculty of Princeton University. Her other works include Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family and Art and Life in Renaissance Venice plus many others.Linda Borean teaches at the University of Udine, Italy, and has contributed to numerous publications on Venetian art. Robert Wald is a conservator at the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna. John Marciari is Associate Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and, most recently, the co-editor of Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery.Robert Echols is an independent scholar living in Maine.Rhona MacBeth is Eyk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo Conservator of Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.David Rosand, the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University, is the author of Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State, Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto and The Invention of Painting in America plus others.John Garton is a curator at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the author of, among others, Grace and Grandeur: The Portraiture of Paolo Veronese.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848220227
• ISBN 13: 9781848220225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Robert Echols, John Garton, Rhona MacBeth