Titian And Venetian Painting, 1450-1590 (ICON EDITIONS)
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This up-to-date, well-illustrated, and thoughtful introduction to the life and works of one of the giants of Western Painting also surveys the golden age of Venetian Painting from Giovanni Bellini to Veronese and its place in the history of Western art. Bruce Cole, Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University and author of numerous books on Italian Renaissance art, begins with the life and work of Giovanni Bellini, the principal founder of Venetian Renaissance painting. He continues with the paintings of Giorgione and the young Titian whose work embodied the new Venetian style. Cole discusses and explains all of Titian's major works--portraits, religious paintings, and nudes--from various points of view and shows how Venetian painting of this period differed from painting in Florence and elsewhere in Italy and became a distinct and fully-developed style of its own.
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I second all the praise that "A Customer" gives to this book, notwithstanding what I am about to say about its pictures. According to the book, it has 119 black and white reproductions and 8 color plates. In fact, in the paperback edition I have, published by Westview Press, the 8 so-called color plates are in black and white too. This doesn't really matter because, even if they were in color, the other 119 are not. Thus, when reading this book, you should have on hand a book of color prints of Titian's work (and, to a lesser extent, of Bellini's, Giorgione's, and a few other artists), or be near the computer to google images. It can be frustrating to read Bruce Cole's descriptions of the colors of a painting and have only a black and white reproduction in front of you.