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Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice
 List Price: Price: $40.31 You Save: $24.69 (38%) DescriptionFor 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.
Titian: The Last Days
 List Price: Price: $6.49 You Save: $20.51 (76%) DescriptionA compelling portrait of the life, work, and meaning of one of the greatest artists of all time. Toward the end of his long life, Tiziano Vecelli—known to the world ever since as Titian (circa 1488– 1576)—was at work on a number of paintings that he kept in his studio, never quite completing them, as though wanting to endlessly postpone the moment of closure. Produced with his fingers as much as with the brush, Titian’s last paintings are imbued with a unique rawness and immediacy without precedent in the history of Western art. As if to further cloud their meaning, after the outbreak of plague that took his life, Titian’s studio was looted and many canvases were taken; what happened to them is not known. But what did Titian, who had experienced as much in the way of material success and critical acclaim as any artist before or since, mean by these works? Titian: The Last Days is a quest through the great artist’s life and work toward the physical and spiritual landscape of his last paintings. Vividly re-creating the atmosphere of sixteenth-century Venice and Europe, Mark Hudson chronicles Titian’s relationships with his own mentors (Bellini and Giorgione), rivals, and patrons—among them popes, kings, and emperors— as well as his troubled dealings with his own family. Paralleling this narrative is Hudson’s personal journey through Titian’s life and career, exploring the relentless formal development that led to the breakthroughs of his last days, and the mystery behind his missing paintings. Moving from Titian’s hometown in the Dolomites to the greatest churches and palaces of the age, to Venice then and now, Titian: The Last Days is an original and compelling study of one of Europe’s greatest artists.
Titian: Prince of Painters (Art)
 List Price: Price: $111.00 DescriptionA comprehensive work on the master painter of the Italian Renaissance. This illustrated volume combines commentary from art historians along with colour reproductions of the artist's frescoes, portraits and altarpieces which reflect conservation efforts. Essays from 16 scholars explore every aspect of Titian's life and art, and more than 75 masterpieces are closely analysed and accompanied by full-colour plates. The book also features a comparative chronology as well as a section devoted to a scientific analysis of Titian's technique. Accessibly presented and aimed at a broad audience, this is an authoritative examination of one of the world's most important and beloved artists.
Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
 List Price: Price: $19.34 You Save: $10.61 (35%) DescriptionFor the past 65 years, the National Galleries of Scotland has displayed the acclaimed Bridgewater Collection, one of the world’s most important groups of Old Master paintings still under private ownership. Consisting largely of French and Italian works, the collection includes Titian’s Diana and Actaeon (recently purchased by the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Gallery of London) and Diana and Callisto, each an undeniable masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance. This catalogue accompanies an unprecedented exhibition of 25 paintings and drawings from the National Galleries of Scotland. In addition to the works by Titian, the book features paintings and drawings by Lorenzo Lotto, Jacopo Bassano, Tintoretto, and Veronese. With special emphasis on the Titian masterpieces, the authors discuss the Bridgewater Collection and its long, proud history of bringing Old Master paintings to public view.
Titian (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
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BostonistMonday HappeningsIf you haven't checked out Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese yet, do it today. In the current economic climate, an exhibit half as awesome is unlikely to arrive in Boston soon. Museum of Fine Arts, 10 am to 5 pm Free. Schedule of events.