Research Catalog

Title

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese : rivals in Renaissance Venice / Frederick Ilchman with contributions by Linda Borean ... [et al.].

Publication

Boston : MFA Publications ; New York, N.Y. : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Ilchman, Frederick.
• Borean, Linda
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Musée du Louvre

Description

315 p. : col. ill., maps; 30 cm.

Summary

"For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Renaissance Venice's three greatest painters - Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese - overlapped, encouraging mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed the course of art history. Venice was then among Europe's richest cities, and its plentiful commissions fostered an exceptionally fertile and innovative climate. In this environment, the three artists - brilliant, ambitious, and fiercely competitive - vied with each other for primacy, deploying the new combination of oil on canvas, with its unique expressive possibilities, and such new approaches as a personal and identifiable signature touch. They also pioneered the use of easel painting, a newly portable format that allowed for unprecedented fame in their lifetimes. With more than 160 stunning examples by the three masters and their contemporaries, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese elucidates the technical and aesthetic innovations that helped define the "Venetian style"--Characterized by loose technique. rich coloring, and often sensual subject matter - as well as the social, political, and economic context in which it flourished. Essays range from examinations of new approaches to studies of such crucial institutions as state commissions and the private patronage system. Most of all, by concentrating on the lives and careers of Venice's three greatest painters, the volume presents a vibrant human portrait - one brimming with intense competition, one-upmanship, humor, and passion."--Jacket.

Subject

• Titian, approximately 1488-1576 > Exhibitions
• Tintoretto, 1518-1594 > Exhibitions
• Veronese, 1528-1588 > Exhibitions
• Painting, Renaissance > Venice > Exhibitions
• Painting, Italian > Venice > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mar. 15, 2009- Aug. 16, 2009, and at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, Sept. 14, 2009-Jan. 4, 2010.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-308) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Venetian painting in an age of rivals / Frederick Ilchman -- Where the money flows : art patronage in sixteenth century Venice / Patricia Fortini Brown -- Collecting in sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice : originals, copies, and "Maniera di" / Linda Borean -- Materials and techniques of painters in sixteenth century Venice / Robert Wald.

ISBN

• 9780878467396 (hardcover)
• 0878467394 (hardcover)
• 9780878467402 (pbk.)
• 0878467408 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008941173

OCLC

• 316329509
• SCSB-12306131

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library