Titian: His Life and Works in 500 Images

An illustrated exploration of the artist and his context, with a gallery of his paintings and drawings

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Celebrated for his use of expressive brush marks, which filled his paintings with dynamism, light and colour in a way not seen before in Renaissance art, Tiziano Veccellio became the greatest painter 16th-century Venice had ever known. In the first half of her beautiful new book, Susie Hodge explores Titian's fascinating life through his family, friends, patrons and commissions. Starting out as a young apprentice in the great city of Venice, Titian grew up surrounded with spectacular works of art, architecture and sculpture. His early influences and remarkable achievements are explained clearly with informative and attractive illustrations throughout. The second half of the book contains a comprehensive gallery of over 300 of Titian's major works.of art, each of which is accompanied by a thorough analysis of theartwork and its significance within the context of Titian's life, hisrapidly changing technique and his body of work as a whole.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-29
Mått:216 x 282 x 23 mm
Vikt:1 318 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Anness Publishing
ISBN:9780754835530

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Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Biografi: konst och underhållning inom Biografier

Mer om författaren

Susie Hodge has an MA in the History of Art by Research from the University of London. She has written many books on art history and writes articles and booklets for art magazines and museums including the V&A,Tate and the Royal Academy.

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Art historian Hodge delivers a comprehensivesurvey of the life, art, and cultural milieu of ItalianRenaissance painter Titian. Born Tiziano Vecellio around 1488, thepainter moved to Venice with his family when he was nine andapprenticed as a mosaic maker. Learning from such well-knownartists as Giorgione, he used the "intense pigments" available inVenice in paintings notable for their lush color and "freedom ofstyle and approach" (for example, he often animated religiousiconography with a sense of movement, portraying the Madonna in a"contrapposto," or twisted, position). After establishing hissubject's biographical information, historical context, andartistic influences in the book's first half, Hodge examinesTitian's paintings in roughly chronological order, unpacking thethemes, style, and significance of famous works (Flora, The Venusof Urbino) and lesser-known pieces (Portrait of a Young Woman).While some of the background-including information on Venice'ssystem of constitutional monarchy-can feel like filler, Hodge'sstylistic analyses are cogent, and welcome context is provided viareproductions of paintings by Titian's instructors, Gentile andGiovanni Bellini; his rival, Sebastiano del Piombo; and hisadmirers, including Tintoretti and Manet. Art students willespecially appreciate this primer on a key Renaissance artist. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (US) JULY 2024I’ve enthused before about this really rather excellent series, which gives you more bangs for your buck than you honestly have any right to expect. Here, Susie Hodge provides a concise but thorough account of Titian’s life and the progress of his work before moving on to a gallery of specific works, each accompanied by a short descriptive caption. As ever, the quality of the reproduction is more than enough to see what you’re looking at and for, enhanced by a decently heavy paper stock that doesn’t swallow the colour or simply feel cheap in the hand. I honestly don’t know how they do it – I really thought the cover price might have hit the £20 mark by now, but it’s well off that. Henry Malt, ArtBookReview January 2025