Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice - Hardcover

Frederick Ilchman; Rosand, David; Borean, Linda; Brown, Patricia; Garton, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878467394 ISBN 13: 9780878467396

Publisher: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"This show brought together some magnificent canvases to tell the story of three brilliant men who set painting on a new course while playing some very intricate games." --Time Magazine, December 8, 2009 (Richard Lacayo)

Edition details

• Publisher: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878467394
• ISBN 13: 9780878467396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304