Titian And Venetian Painting, 1450-1590 - Softcover

Cole, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813390435 ISBN 13: 9780813390437

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

This up-to-date, well-illustrated, and thoughtful introduction to the life and works of one of the giants of Western Painting also surveys the golden age of Venetian Painting from Giovanni Bellini to Veronese and its place in the history of Western art. Bruce Cole, Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University and author of numerous books on Italian Renaissance art, begins with the life and work of Giovanni Bellini, the principal founder of Venetian Renaissance painting. He continues with the paintings of Giorgione and the young Titian whose work embodied the new Venetian style. Cole discusses and explains all of Titian's major works--portraits, religious paintings, and nudes--from various points of view and shows how Venetian painting of this period differed from painting in Florence and elsewhere in Italy and became a distinct and fully-developed style of its own.

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce Cole is Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University. A former Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is the author of Giotto and Florentine Painting, The Renaissance Artist at Work, Italian Art, 1250–1500 and other books.

Review:

"Clearly, elegantly and often brilliantly written, this book is both a contribution to the scholarly literature on Titian and a thoughtful introduction to him and his work." -- Norman Land, , Professor of Art History, University of Missouri at Columbia

"Full of fresh and suggestive insights. A wonderful book which is going to be much in use for some time to come. -- Paul Barolsky, , Commonwealth Professor of Art History, The University of Virginia

"Generations of students of Italian painting will have reason to be grateful to Cole for a well-conceived, highly distinguished book." -- John Pope-Hennessy, Apollo

"In this sensitive and enthusiastic appraisal of color, Cole is at his best.... " -- Burlington Magazine

"Interesting and illuminating, goes further inside the Florentine movement of the early fifteenth century than any book I know." -- Kenneth Clark

"Scholarly and exacting.... An intellectually rigorous and elegant assessment of the evolution of Titian's style, which was startlingly original..." -- Kirkus Reviews

"[G]racefully written.... The strength of the book lies in its evocative descriptions of individual works." -- Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0813390435
• ISBN 13: 9780813390437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280