Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice
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Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice, here published in a revised and updated edition, explores the visual tradition of one of the most important centres of the Italian Renaissance through a study of three masters - Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto. These painters dominated and shaped the traditions of Venetian painting in the High and Late Renaissance. Establishing the conditions of painting in Renaissance Venice, including the social, economic and political situation of arts and artists and the aesthetic values that distinguish Venetian painting from that of Central Italy, David Rosand also explores the formal principles and technical procedures that determined the uniqueness of painting in Venice, above all the development of oil painting on canvas. He also analyses individual images, altarpieces and mural paintings within the several contexts of conventions and institutions - artistic, social, historical - of Renaissance Venice.
- Offers the most in-depth introduction to the work of three great painters
- Combines social history and structural analysis
- Highly illustrated with colour, and black and white illustrations
Product details
January 1998Hardback
9780521562867
301 pages
289 × 222 × 24 mm
1.455kg
94 b/w illus. 32 colour illus.
Unavailable - out of print February 2000
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface, 1. Introduction
- the conditions of painting in Renaissance Venice
- 2. Titian and the challenge of the altarpiece
- 3. Titian's presentation of the Virgin in the Temple and the Scuola della Carita
- 4. Theater and structure in the art of Paolo Veronese
- 5. Action and piety in Tintoretto's religious pictures
- Appendix: documents relating to the Scuola della Carita
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
