Lives of Titian

Giorgio Vasari, Sperone Speroni, Pietro Aretino , Ludovico Dolce

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English

Pallas Athene Publishers
01 August 2023

History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: arts & entertainment

Series: Lives of the Artists

Titian (c. 1488-1576) was recognised very early on as the leading painter of his generation in Venice. Starting in the studio of the aged Giovanni Bellini, Titian, with his contemporary Giorgione, almost immediately started to expand the range of what was possible in painting, converting Bellini's statuesque style into something far more impressionistic and romantic. This restless spirit of innovation and improvisation never left him, and during his long life he experimented with a number of different styles, the brushwork of his last great paintings showing a mysterious poetry that has never been equalled.

This volume in the series Lives of the Artists collects the major writings about Titian by his contemporaries and near-contemporaries. The centerpiece is the biography by Vasari, who as a Florentine found Titian's very Venetian sense of colour and transient forms a challenge to his concept of art as design. The sparkling letter writer Aretino had a more nuanced view of his friend's work, and Priscianese's account of a dinner party with Titian, and the contributions by Speroni and Dolce round out the picture of this hugely thoughtful, intellectual artist, whose paintings remain some of the most sensual and affecting in all of Western art.

Mostly unavailable in any form for many years, these writings have been newly edited for this edition. They are introduced by the scholar Carlo Corsato, who places each in its artistic and literary context. 66 pages of colour illustrations cover the full range of Titian's great oeuvre.

66 colour illustrations

By: Giorgio Vasari, Sperone Speroni, Pietro Aretino, Ludovico Dolce, Franceso Prisicianese
Imprint: Pallas Athene Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 145mm, Width: 114mm,
Weight: 184g
ISBN: 9781843681717
ISBN 10: 1843681714
Series: Lives of the Artists
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Reviews for Lives of Titian

""The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication."" - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews