Author: J. A. Crowe

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Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9781330696873

Excerpt from Titian His Life and Times; With Some Account of His Family, Chiefly From New and Unpublished Records, Vol. 1 of 2 The materials for Titian's Life and Times are not to be found in a condensed or easily accessible form, nor are they to be collected otherwise than by patient search and laborious reading. In the contemporary "Dialogues" of Dolce, Pino, and Biondo, we are treated more frequently to anecdote than to fact, and the letters of Aretino which illustrate the period extending from 1527 to 1556 require to be sifted and controlled with the more care as they were often altered and interpolated to serve a political purpose. Vasari's biography, written ten years before Titian's death, is necessarily curt and incomplete, but it is feebly supplemented by Sansovino, whilst Borghini's "Riposo" and Tizianello's "Anonimo," printed in 1584 and 1622, are altogether sketchy and imperfect. Ridolfi, the first to attempt a finished life of Titian, had ample sources of information at his command, but he used them superficially, and his account of the great master is as short as it is slight and diffuse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.