Cleo Nisse is assistant professor of early modern European art history at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She is the coeditor of Titian’s Poetics: Selected Essays by David Rosand. In addition to a PhD in art history from Columbia University, she holds a postgraduate degree in painting conservation from the Courtauld Institute.

"The prestige of Venice’s painters brought with it the triumph of canvas, more suited to the damp Venetian climate than plaster, and cheaper and easier to transport than wood. But how did artists like Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto actually use this new material?. . . . Cleo Nisse has provided a whole new way of looking at these innovations in Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting."---J.S. Marcus, The Art Newspaper

Cleo Nisse is assistant professor of early modern European art history at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She is the coeditor of Titian’s Poetics: Selected Essays by David Rosand. In addition to a PhD in art history from Columbia University, she holds a postgraduate degree in painting conservation from the Courtauld Institute.

"The prestige of Venice’s painters brought with it the triumph of canvas, more suited to the damp Venetian climate than plaster, and cheaper and easier to transport than wood. But how did artists like Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto actually use this new material?. . . . Cleo Nisse has provided a whole new way of looking at these innovations in Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting."---J.S. Marcus, The Art Newspaper

Cleo Nisse is assistant professor of early modern European art history at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She is the coeditor of Titian’s Poetics: Selected Essays by David Rosand. In addition to a PhD in art history from Columbia University, she holds a postgraduate degree in painting conservation from the Courtauld Institute.

"The prestige of Venice’s painters brought with it the triumph of canvas, more suited to the damp Venetian climate than plaster, and cheaper and easier to transport than wood. But how did artists like Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto actually use this new material?. . . . Cleo Nisse has provided a whole new way of looking at these innovations in Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting."---J.S. Marcus, The Art Newspaper