The Cambridge Companion to Titian
The Cambridge Companion to Titian

Author: Patricia Meilman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-01-20

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780521796309

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Renowned throughout Italy, as well as Europe, at his death in 1576, Titian was the pre-eminent artist of Venice during the sixteenth century. His importance has never been questioned and his works have been admired from his own day to the present. This Companion serves as an introduction to the prolific artist. Covering all aspects of his life and career, the anthology examines Titian's secular and religious painting, prints and pictures related to poetry, as well as his contributions to architecture.

Titian
Titian

Author: Tom Nichols

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2013-11-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1780232276

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Titian is best known for paintings that embodied the tradition of the Venetian Renaissance—but how Venetian was the artist himself? In this study, Tom Nichols probes the tensions between the individualism of Titian’s work and the conservative mores of the city, showing how his art undermined the traditional self-suppressing approach to painting in Venice and reflected his engagement with the individualistic cultures emerging in the courts of early modern Europe. Ranging widely across Titian’s long career and varied works, Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance outlines his radical innovations to the traditional Venetian altarpiece; his transformation of portraits into artistic creations; and his meteoric breakout from the confines of artistic culture in Venice. Nichols explores how Titian challenged the city’s communal values with his competitive professional identity, contending that his intensely personalized way of painting resulted in a departure that effectively brought an end to the Renaissance tradition of painting. Packed with 170 illustrations, this groundbreaking book will change the way people look at Titian and Venetian art history.

The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini
The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini

Author: Peter Humfrey

Publisher:

Published: 2008-06-16

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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This Companion volume brings together commissioned essays by an international team of scholars on Giovanni Bellini, the dominant painter of Early Renaissance Venice. Among the topics and themes to be discussed are Bellini's position in the social and professional life of early modern Venice; his artistic relationships with his brother-in-law Mantegna, with Flemish painting, and with the 'modern style' that emerged in Italy around 1500; and the connections between Bellini's paintings and the sister arts of architecture and sculpture. Further essays reassess the artist's approaches to landscape and color, elements that have always been recognized as central to his pictorial genius.

The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

Author: Philip R. Hardie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-02

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780521775281

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Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Ovid, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.

The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder
The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder

Author: John Mansfield Thomson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-10-27

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521358163

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The first book to offer a complete introduction to the recorder includes basic reference material previously unavailable in one volume. A special feature is the rich collection of illustrations which in themselves provide a history of the instrument.

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

Author: Michael Wyatt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-26

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1139991671

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The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the richly varied materials and phenomena as well as the different methodologies through which the Renaissance is studied today both in the English-speaking world and in Italy. The chapters are organized around axes of humanism, historiography, and cultural production, and cover a wide variety of areas including literature, science, music, religion, technology, artistic production, and economics. The diffusion of the Renaissance throughout Italian territories is emphasized. Overall, the Companion provides an essential overview of a period that witnessed both a significant revalidation of the classical past and the development of new, vernacular, and increasingly secular values.

The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson
The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson

Author: Richard Harp

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-11-30

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1139825860

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Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and masque; in poetry, epigram, epistle and lyric; in prose, literary criticism and English grammar. He became the most visible poet of his age, honored more than even William Shakespeare, and his dramatic works, in particular his major comedies, continue to be performed today. This Companion brings together leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to provide an accessible and up-to-date introduction to Jonson's life and works. It represents an invaluable guide to current critical perspectives, providing generous coverage not only of his plays but also his non-dramatic works. The volume is informed by the latest development in Jonson scholarship and will therefore appeal to scholars and teachers as well as newcomers to his work.

Titian and the Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice
Titian and the Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice

Author: Patricia Meilman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-03-13

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521640954

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This study examines the development of the altarpiece in sixteenth-century Venice. Focusing closely on Titian's St. Peter Martyr Altarpiece, which was the most famous work by this painter, destroyed in 1867, Patricia Meilman considers how this painting irrevocably changed the course of altar decoration. Demonstrating the legacy of the St. Peter Martyr Altarpiece with a younger generation of painters, she also examines the social, religious and historical events of the decades just before the Tridentine reforms and their impact on devotional imagery and practices.

The Cambridge Companion to Raphael
The Cambridge Companion to Raphael

Author: Marcia B. Hall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-03-07

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780521808095

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This book examines all facets of the High Renaissance painter Raphael.