Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice

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For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Venice's three greatest painters--Titan, Tintoretto and Veronese--overlapped, producing mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed art history. Venice was then among Europe's richest cities, and its plentiful commissions fostered an exceptionally fertile and innovative climate. In it, the three artists--brilliant, ambitious and fiercely competitive--vied with one another for primacy, employing 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 more than 150 stunning examples by the three masters and their contemporaries, this volume 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. 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, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese paints a vibrant human portrait--one brimming with savage rivalry, one-upsmanship, humor and passion.

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Customer Reviews

abundant masterpieces
This splendid catalogue documents the rivalry between Titian, Tintoretto and Titian in words and paintings. This exhibition had 56 paintings on display; and what a succession of great works they are! As would be expected, the informed reader would notice a number of previously familiar paintings. There are however a significant proportion of works that would be seen for the first time.

I have one significant complaint about this otherwise excellent publication. There are 17 full page illustrations, detail reproductions of works appearing in other parts of the catalogue, that receive no written identification. This carelessness is very annoying and surprizing.

Despite my single criticism, I still strongly recommend this excellent book for the interesting text and succession of magnificent paintings. Tintoretto fans are urged to investigate the superb Prado catalogue edited by Miguel Falomir. Even better, visit Venice and see his massive and untransportable masterpieces in person!

2009-08-10 (Sydney Australia) | Helpful Votes: 14 | Rating: 4

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A must for those studying Italian Renaissance art
In the peak of the Renaissance, competition between artists was higher than ever. "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice" is a look at the fierce rivalry that raged on throughout the sixteenth century. The three titular artists, each from similar backgrounds and influences, shared a fierce rivalry and the desire to be better than their peers. All three were widely considered by many to be some of the best artists to ever emerge from Venice. Their lives are traced through each of their works, and the works of their rivals. "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese" is enhanced with full color reproductions of their classic artworks, and is a must for those studying Italian Renaissance art.

2009-05-15 (Oregon, WI USA) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

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Titian (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)

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Presents a biography of Titian

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Late Titian and the Sensuality of Painting

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Scholars have long debated the mystery of Titian’s later works. His palette, so extraordinarily expressive, makes one ask whether his paintings are to be looked at as a visionary achievement or simply as unfinished works. Taking fully into account his cultural milieu, and enriched by studies on the patrons and collectors of Titian’s works as well as on his contemporaries (in particular Schiavone, Tintoretto, and Jacopo Bassano), this volume gives definitive answers to many questions while delving deeper into the great master’s life.

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A supreme achievement in Western painting
This book is the catalogue for an exhibition held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, in late 2007. It is centered on a crucial body of works by the Venetian master, when his sense of color, composition, and, above all, drama, reached its peak. The book starts with several scholarly essays on Titian's late style, on his workshop (in this respect, neither Jeff Koons nor Damien Hirst invented anything when they started using assistants...), on his influence beyond Venice (i.e. at the Spanish court)or on his technique. Especially interesting are the chapters that dwell on specific paintings (the Nymph and Shepherd, recently restored, and the Danae, both in Vienna) which help understand the master's creative process and the implication of studio assistants in the finished product, as well as the chapter studying Titian's art of the portraiture (here, marvelous illustrations of such portraits as that of the Aretino, of pope Paul III, of Doge Andrea Gritti, and many more, are all analysed in depth).

As is the case with most of the Kunsthistorisches Museum's publications, this is a high-quality catalogue written by leading authorities in the field, which I highly recommend.

2008-10-24 (Florianopolis, Brazil and Paris, France) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 5

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A Visual Feast
I had a chance to see this show in Vienna, but had to cancel for health reasons. The only bad thing about this book is that it reminds me of what a great exhbition I missed. Text runs the gamut from biographical essays to very detailed considerations of technique. The illustrations are large and magnificently rendered. A wonderful overview of the most interesting period of Titian's work that may introduce you to some masterful, seldom-reproduced paintings.

2008-06-16 (Virginia, USA) | Helpful Votes: 10 | Rating: 4

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Titian

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Peter Humfrey's engaging monograph offers an accessible, informative overview of the life and works of Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, c.1488/90-1576), one of the most remarkable painters of the Italian Renaissance. This comprehensive survey places Titian's career and works into the social and historical context of sixteenth-century Italy, offering detailed discussions of individual paintings and artistic techniques. These discussions invite the reader to engage fully with Titian's works, which are renowned for their extraordinary use of color.

Titian explores the artist's approaches to mythological and religious subjects, as well as his success as a landscape and portrait painter. It also examines how the diverse demands of his illustrious patrons influenced his artistic output. Careful attention is paid to the reproduction of images - this ensures that their glorious colors are presented in their true intensity.

This new look at Titian combines Peter Humfrey's scholarly yet accessible text with 200 beautiful reproductions of Titian's works, from oil paintings and frescoes to preparatory drawings. The book is a perfect introduction to the work of this original and influential Renaissance artist.

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Titian Review
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3NS75LFAA2E29 Titian hardcover book by Phaidon has done another wonderful job in presenting color plates in large size while keeping the details. The pages are slightly on the thicker side, but don't limit the numbers of paintings presented within.

2009-07-16 | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 4

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The Titian Committee (Jonathan Argyll Mysteries)

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Iain Pears combines "articulate characters and erudite art commentary" (The New York Times Book Review) in this sophisticated, suspenseful series featuring art historian Jonathan Argyll and the delightfully clever Flavia di Stefano.

In The Titian Committee, the two embark on a daring investigation after a member of a famous research committee is found dead in a Venetian public garden.

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The Titian Committee (Art History Mystery)
Excellent service, prompt delivery, excellent conditon
as described, packaged well.
Would use again.

2010-01-26 (Clearwater, Florida United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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art interest revival
Iain Pears delivers yet again a positive and entertaining reading material in THE TITIAN COMMITEE,surely most readers will feel the need to
review TITIAN paintings as I did to embrace closely with the plot.
Framed with simplicity and easily accesible by all readers it builds up to a great finale almost as a 1950 novel bringing together most of the players in a final deliverance.
Always with the necessary descriptions but not overwhelmly leaves room for the reader to recreate the images.
Hopefully we will continue to receive new art mystery proposals such as this one from the author,Pablo More-Uruguay-South America

2007-01-19 (URUGUAY,SOUTH AMERICA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 4

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Lead characters outshine beautiful location.
The second in the Jonathan Argyll series is dissimilar from the first in that it is set in one location (I prefer books that wander across Europe), but has more enough mystery to keep anyone guessing as suspects come in and out of reasonable suspicion. Not much detail is given to the secondary characters, so it allows for a really quick read with a satisfactory ending that explained why my choice of murder was wrong. As usual with Pears there is historical accuracy, as well as plenty of humor. All in all, a great weekend read when you do not wish to dive into a larger book.

2006-02-13 | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 4

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Don't Drink the Water
Don't Drink the Water

An Ian Pears' view of ever-romantic Venice never lets readers forget they are in a watery wasteland. However appealing visually, the downside is very dirty water, water everywhere. You can't get "there" from "here" without crossing the canals, and God forbid you should ever, ever fall in!
The protagonists fall in the canals, suffer from seasickness, and root around in sub-basements never meant to be seen by the tourists.

The plot is secondary to the fun and the easy-to-digest art history that author Pears provides. Gorgeous, volatile Flavia and diffident Jonathan (think Hugh Grant) team up to investigate the endangered members of the prestigious Titian Committee, who are being picked off one-by-one. Their directive is to bring the investigation to a speedy, expedient closure that will make the various Italian bureaucracies look good. Solving the crime is secondary. As Flavia's marvelous superior General Bottando informs her when she triumphantly states she has found another body in France, "But you're not meant to be finding more," he said grumpily, "You're meant to be dealing with the more than adequate supply we have already."

It is hard to pigeonhole Pears' Art Mysteries as to type. The satire is good humored, but nevertheless has a bite. The protagonists are made far too uncomfortable and the action too graphic to be a "cozy," and the lack of dedication to task make it impossible to label the stories "hard boiled." If you adore things Italian and have more than a passing interest in art history, I highly recommend this series.
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2003-09-10 (RICHMOND, VA USA) | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 4

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Another Good Entry in the Series
This is the second book in this series of art mysteries (Raphael Affair was first). The series need not be read in order as I found when I read this one out of order.

Pears' ironic humor is abundant and his main characters all so human. The cultural aspects always add to the plot and Pears' writing style also adds.

The plot of Titian Committee is good. The author presents the reader with members of a research committee who are all - at some time or other - suspects, prime suspects or murder victims.

Like some of Pears' other books, there is a moral decision/question that throws an extra twist. Are the good guys always good? Or is it good to be a good guy and not so good?

Somehow the reader gets the warm feeling throughout this book that Mr. Pears writes with a constant grin on his face. This is an enjoyable light read.

2003-04-17 | Rick Mitchell (candia, new hampshire United States) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 4

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Titian: The Last Days

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The Mystery of Titian
Titian, the 16th century artist, is a figure shrouded in mystery. Very few of his paintings exist today, and those that are known are scattered in museums and galleries around the world. No one is sure when or where or why they were painted, or what they may mean. Even more mysterious are the paintings Titian was working on when he died, both in style and subject, as well as in more basic elements such as location, since many works were immediately stolen from his studio upon his death. In //Titian: The Last Days//, Mark Hudson sets out to try to answer some of these riddles.

Hudson's exploration of Titian's life and times is finely researched, and he intersperses these passages with information about his own quest to solve the mysteries of Titian. These digressions are equally illuminating when they could have been nothing more than distractions. The writing is well executed, and the subject matter is interesting, even to those readers unfamiliar with 16th century Italian artists.

Reviewed by Margo Orlando Littell

2010-05-24 | Sacramento Book Review (Sacramento, CA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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A biography of Titan's life and times, re-creating 16th century Venice for any who would study his life and works
Titan: The Last Days offers art libraries a survey of one Tiziano Vecillio, also known as Titan, who worked on a number of paintings that vanished when his studio was looted after his death. This considers his relationships with his mentors, rivals and patrons and offers a biography of Titan's life and times, re-creating 16th century Venice for any who would study his life and works.

2010-04-20 (Oregon, WI USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Should have been better . . . .
Not an art history or even a history book, but rather a travelogue on Hudson's mostly failed attempt to track down facts and place to illuminate a story on Titian's last days during the Venetian plague.

2010-03-19 | Critic in exile (Malibu, CA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 2

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titian the last days
Great subject, but written in a fake dramatic manner: made-up dialogue and completely fabricated scenes in which, for instance, imagined smells and events from Titian's studio are concocted by the author: a cheap mentality that is not in keeping with the greatness of the paintings Hudson tries to discuss.

2010-01-19 | Collector | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 2

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Another pair of eyes
As someone who looks and a picture and rapidly loses interest because it aint moving, it has always been something of a surprise that in days before video a painting could evoke the sort of response amongst the public that say a trip to see Avatar in 3D can nowadays. Fusty old painting hung in gloomy rooms or even contemporary art works hung in garish art centres financed by some arts council or other, have always provoked a rapid movement to the souvenir shop and the tea room and contemplation of my Philistine soul. I'm an arty person, a creative individual, deeply entrenched in esoteric histories, world-cultures, and well dug into the trenches of artistic creation, and yet paintings often seems little more than interior decoration. So it is refreshing to read a work of art criticism and history, that does not just deal with the biographical details, but the response to the art both then and now, along with their own personal relationship with it. It flies in the face of pretension while at the same time maintains their capacity for awe at the achievement and relish at some of the banality of the business of art. The Last Days Of Titian gives one another pair of eyes to look at these things and explains why anyone bothers. Art here is both a window into another world and a mirror reflecting oneself in one's own. Multi-point perspective is the term that comes to mind when reading this trip into the renaissance.

2010-01-15 | Lawrence Gray (Hong Kong) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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