基本説明
With over 150 stunning examples by the three masters and their contemporaries, this book elucidates the technical and aesthetic innovations that helped define the uniquely rich 'Venetian style', as well as the social, political and economic context in which it flourished.
Full Description
For nearly four decades in the 16th century, the careers of Venice's three greatest painters - Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese - overlapped, producing 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 climate, the three artists - brilliant, ambitious and fiercely competitive - vied with each other for primacy, deploying such new media as oil on canvas, with its unique expressive possibilities, and such new approaches as a personal and identifiable 'signature style'. They also pioneered the use of easel painting, a newly portable format that led to unprecedented fame in their lifetimes.With over 150 stunning examples by the three masters and their contemporaries, "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese" elucidates the technical and aesthetic innovations that helped define the uniquely rich 'Venetian style', as well as the social, political and economic context in which it flourished. The essays range from examinations of seminal new techniques to such crucial institutions as state commissions and the patronage system. Most of all, by concentrating on the lives and careers of Venice's three greatest painters, the volume paints an equally vibrant human portrait - one brimming with savage rivalry, one-upmanship, humour and passion.
Contents
ContentsVeneto in the sixteenth century; Map of Venice in 1540 with commissions of the three painters; Venice in the age of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese, Frederick Ilchman; The role of the client: Patronage in Renaissance Venice, Patricia Fortini Brown; Contemporary testimony: Copies, inventories and the forming of a canon, Linda Borean; The materials of the artist, the alchemy of the brush, Frederick Ilchman and Robert Wald; Catalogue: The transformation of Venetian painting, Frederick Ilchman; Titian to 1540, Frederick Ilchman; The arrival of new rivals, John Marciari; Sacred themes, Frederick Ilchman and Robert Echols; Beneath the surface: technical studies Frederick Ilchman and Rhona Macbeth; Mythologies and the female nude, David Rosand; Portraiture, John Garton; Late styles, Frederick Ilchman and Robert Echols; Appendices; Checklist and provenance narratives; Bibliography; Index.
