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Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity
Tom Nichols
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Description for Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity
Paperback. An acclaimed reassessment of Italian master painter Jacopo Tintoretto, now available in compact pocket format, which charts Tintoretto's life and work in the context of Venetian art and the culture of the Cinquecento. Num Pages: 400 pages, 208 illustrations, 116 in colour. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 140 x 42. Weight in Grams: 810.
The Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–1594) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. Critics and writers such as Vasari, Ruskin and Sartre all placed him in opposition to the established artistic practice of his time, noting that he had abandoned the values that typified the venerable Venetian Renaissance tradition. He was even expelled as an apprentice from the workshop of Titian.
This informative and generously illustrated book offers a long-overdue re-evaluation of Tintoretto’s unique work and entertaining life.
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780234502
SKU
V9781780234502
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Tom Nichols
Tom Nichols is Reader in History of Art at the University of Glasgow. His previous books for Reaktion include Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity (2015) and Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance (2013).
Reviews for Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity
A wonderfully informative and entertaining new study of the painter. The first full-length account of the artists life and work to appear in English for nearly 50 years.
Sunday Telegraph Magazine
Nichols . . . is at pains to point out how far this at once exhilarating and exasperating painter went against the Venetian grain. Nichols persuasively shows how he cultivated poverty, in terms of technique, iconography and professional identity . . . a good book.
The Independent
By relating the pictures to the changes in cinquecento Venice, Nichols identifies the nature of and suggests the reasons for Tintorettos unorthodox style. The many, excellent illustrations in Tintoretto can be admired for their own sake, but the text demands to be closely read.
Sunday Times
Deeply perceptive in interpretation
Brian Sewell, Books of the Year
Evening Standard
[An] excellent book . . . both engaging and most enlightening.
Times Literary Supplement
Much of the best modern scholarship on the subject is incorporated into an argument which is well presented and enriched with many original and intelligent observations.
Burlington Magazine
Sunday Telegraph Magazine
Nichols . . . is at pains to point out how far this at once exhilarating and exasperating painter went against the Venetian grain. Nichols persuasively shows how he cultivated poverty, in terms of technique, iconography and professional identity . . . a good book.
The Independent
By relating the pictures to the changes in cinquecento Venice, Nichols identifies the nature of and suggests the reasons for Tintorettos unorthodox style. The many, excellent illustrations in Tintoretto can be admired for their own sake, but the text demands to be closely read.
Sunday Times
Deeply perceptive in interpretation
Brian Sewell, Books of the Year
Evening Standard
[An] excellent book . . . both engaging and most enlightening.
Times Literary Supplement
Much of the best modern scholarship on the subject is incorporated into an argument which is well presented and enriched with many original and intelligent observations.
Burlington Magazine