Research Catalog

Title

Titian : Love, desire, death / Matthias Wivel ; with contributions by Beverly Louise Brown, Carlo Corsato, Thomas Dalla Costa, Jill Dunkerton, Ana González Mozo, Paul Hills, Lelia Packer, Gianfranco Pocobene, Javier Portús, Nathaniel Silver, Marika Spring and Aidan Weston-Lewis.

Author

Wivel, Matthias, 1975-

Publication

• London : National Gallery Company, 2020.
• [Place of distribution not identified] : Distributed by Yale University Press
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Titian, approximately 1488-1576
• Brown, Beverly Louise, 1948-
• Corsato, Carlo
• Dalla Costa, Thomas
• Dunkerton, Jill
• González Mozo, Ana
• Hills, Paul
• Packer, Lelia
• Pocobene, Gianfranco, 1957-
• Portús Pérez, Javier
• Silver, Nathaniel E.
• Spring, Marika
• Weston-Lewis, Aidan
• Stephenson, Johanna
• Lupi, Livia
• Suffield, Laura
• National Gallery (Great Britain), host institution.
• Scottish National Gallery, host institution.
• Museo del Prado, host institution.
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, host institution.

Description

232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 x 24 cm

Summary

This book presents a detailed study of the complete series and is lavishly illustrated with details of these emotionally charged paintings. The book explores Titian's creative process, technique, his use of literary and visual sources and his artistic legacy as well as his correspondence with Philip II. Offering the most comprehensive overview of these remarkable works, 'Titian: Love, Desire, Death' is an indispensable resource for scholars and admirers of Renaissance painting. Titian (active about 1506; died 1576) produced a masterful group of paintings for Philip II, depicting scenes from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and celebrating the loves of gods, goddesses and mortals. Exhibition: National Gallery, London, UK (16.03.-14.06.2020) / Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (11.07.-27.09.2020) / Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (20.10.2020 - 10.01.2021) / Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA (11.02.-09.05.2021).

Uniform Title

• Titian, women, myth and power.
• Mythological passions, from Titian to Velázquez.

Subject

• Titian, approximately 1488-1576 > Criticism and interpretation
• Titian, approximately 1488-1576 > Exhibitions
• Titian, approximately 1488-1576
• Vecellio, Tiziano 1477-1576
• Art, Renaissance > Venice > Exhibitions
• Art and Design
• Art and mythology > Exhibitions
• Gods in art > Exhibitions
• Goddesses in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "Published to accompany the exhibitions 'Titian: Love, desire, death', The National Gallery, London, 16 March - 14 June 2020. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, 11 July - 17 September 2020. 'Titian: Women, myth and power', Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 11 February - 9 May 2021. Pictures from the poesie group are joining the exhibition 'Mythological passions: from Titian to Velázquez', Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 20 October 2020 - 10 January 2021"--Title page verso.
• "Editor: Johanna Stephenson"--Title page verso.
• "Translation of texts from Italian to English ... by Livia Lupi; translation of texts from Spanish to English ... by Laura Suffield"--Title page verso.
• "... in association with National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Divine and fatal: an account of Titian's Poesie / Matthias Wivel -- Titian's transformations: colour and emotion in the Poesie / Paul Hills -- Acquiring knowledge from ancient things: the literary and visual sources of Titian's Poesie / Beverly Louise Brown -- Modes of painting: Titian's technique in the Poesie / Jill Dunkerton, Ana González Mozo, Gianfranco Pocobene, and Marika Spring -- The artistic legacy of Titan's Poesie / Javier Portús -- Catalogue. Cat. 1: Danaë, Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London / Matthias Wivel -- Cat. 2: Venus and Adonis, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid / Matthias Wivel -- Cat. 3: Perseus and Andromeda, The Wallace Collection, London / Lelia Packer -- Cat. 4: Diana and Acteaeon, The National Gallery, London, and National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh / Matthias Wivel -- Cat. 6: The rape of Europa, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston / Nathaniel Silver -- Cat. 7: The death of Actaeon, The National Gallery, London / Matthias Wivel -- The Poesie in correspondence / Thomas Dalla Costa -- Selected correspondence -- The Milan incident / Carlo Corsato

Call Number

ND623.T7

ISBN

• 185709655X
• 9781857096552

LCCN

2019950958

OCLC

• on1117625288
• 1117625288

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries