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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Museum of FINE Arts, Boston
ISBN-10
0878467394
ISBN-13
9780878467396
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71703273
Product Key Features
Book Title
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese : Rivals in Renaissance Venice
Author
Frederick Ilchman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, European, History / Renaissance
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11.6 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
10.1 in
Item Weight
73.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
LeafCats
378
Lc Classification Number
Nd621.V5t58 2009
Text by
Borean, Linda, Ilchman, Frederick, Brown, Patricia, Rosand, David