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" Titian : "
Sheila Hale.
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BL
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652022
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Hale, Sheila.
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| Title & Author
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Titian : : his life /\ Sheila Hale.
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| Edition Statement
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First U.S. edition.
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xxiii, 832 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical table ;; 24 cm
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9780060598761 :
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: 006059876X :
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 789-802) and index.
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| Contents
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1488/90-1518. Mountains -- The most triumphant city -- The painter's Venice -- Myths of Venice -- The Fondaco, Giorgione, and the modern manner -- Miracles and disasters -- 'Some little bit of fame' -- 'His industrious brush' : pentimenti and portraits -- Sacred and profane -- 1518-1530. Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara -- Bacchus and Ariadne -- A new Doge, a river of wine, and marriage -- The fall of a world -- The triumvirate of taste -- Caesar in Italy -- The most beautiful thing in Italy -- 1530-1542. The portrait of Cornelia -- The house in Biri Grande -- The most powerful rules in the world -- The Venus of Urbino -- The Roman emperors -- The writers' Venice -- An old battle and a new war -- Titian in his fifties -- 1543-1562. Aretino plays Pontius Pilate -- The last great pope of the Renaissance -- A miracle of nature -- Rome -- A matter of religion -- Augsburg -- The prince and the painter -- Venus and Adonis -- The passing of the leviathans -- The Diana poems -- The Rape of Europa -- 1562-1576. A factory of images -- The Spider King -- The biographer, the art dealer, and the King's Annus Horribilis -- Wars -- 'In this my old age' -- Another way of using colour' -- The plague and the pity -- Titian's legacy.
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| Abstract
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A biography of the Venetian artist, Titian and the evolution of his paintings.
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Titian,approximately 1488-1576.
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Painters-- Italy-- Venice, Biography.
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| Dewey Classification
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759.5311B
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ND623.T7H34 2012
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