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Tom Nichols - Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance - 9781780236742 - V9781780236742
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Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance

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Description for Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance Paperback. This comprehensive, highly illustrated new study examines Titian's long career and varied output. Tom Nichols argues that Titian's works were self-consciously original, freely and intentionally undermining the traditional, more modest approach to painting in Venice at that time. Num Pages: 336 pages, 170 illustrations, 100 in colour. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 276 x 18. Weight in Grams: 986.

Titian’s works are often seen as embodying the famous tradition of Venetian Renaissance painting. But how ‘Venetian’ was Titian, and can his unique works be taken as truly representative of his adoptive city? This comprehensive new study, covering Titian’s long career and varied output, highlights the tensions between the individualism of his work and the conservative mores of Venice. Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance argues that Titian’s works were self-consciously original, freely and intentionally undermining the traditional, more modest approach to painting in Venice – a position that frequently caused disputes with local artists and patrons.

This book, now available in paperback, charts Titian’s early stylistic independence from his master Giovanni Bellini, his radical innovations to the classical altarpiece and his meteoric break from the normal confines of Venice’s artistic culture. Titian competitively cultivated a professional identity and his dynamic career was epitomized by the development of his ‘late style’, which set him apart from all predecessors and was intended to defy emulation by any followers. It was through this final individualistic departure that Titian effectively brought the Renaissance tradition of painting to an end. This ground-breaking interpretation will be of interest to all scholars and students of Renaissance and Venetian art history.

Product Details

Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780236742
SKU
V9781780236742
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Ref
99-2

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 Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance
This highly original study prises Titian away from the Venetian tradition, arguing that his works rebelled against their local context far more often than they cosied up to it. Nichols discerns the painters strident individualism throughout his career, from his early efforts to break with his master, Giovanni Bellini, to his formal experiments with the classical altarpiece and, ultimately, in his inimitable late style.
Apollo
Nicholss book takes readers through Titians career in a chronological and thematic progression. His conclusions are consistently thought-provoking, engaging, and often heterodox, stressing difference, contrast and the uniqueness of Titians work . . . [a] nicely illustrated and well-produced volume . . . offers a challenging alternative view of one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance. Recommended.
Choice
Nicholss book offers the kind of free-flowing and deeply intelligent analysis of a painters career that can only be produced after long study and intimate familiarity with his subject. Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
Choice

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