Bellini,Giorgione,Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting

Bellini,Giorgione,Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting - catalogue exhibition Washington 2006 edited by David Alan Brown and Sylvia Ferino Pagden e altri collaboratori///////////// Yale University PressPages: 288,Ills.162 plates in color and 31 halftones Quarto Cloth ------- Presents a survey of sixty Venetian Renaissance paintings of the calibre of Bellini and Titian's "Feast of the Gods" in Washington and Giorgione's "Laura and Three Philosophers" in Vienna. Through a series of thematic sections, the authors trace the rise of secular subjects - pastoral landscapes, female nudes, and romantic portraits. The first three decades of the sixteenth century represent, visually and intellectually, the most exciting phase of the Renaissance in Venice - when Giorgione and the young Titian, together with Sebastiano del Piombo and Palma Vecchio, and others, were working alongside the older master Giovanni Bellini. This beautiful book presents an innovative survey of sixty Venetian Renaissance paintings of the calibre of Bellini and Titian's "Feast of the Gods" in Washington and Giorgione's "Laura and Three Philosophers" in Vienna. Unlike previous surveys of the period, this book refrains from dividing up the artists represented and instead explores the interrelationships between them. Through a series of thematic sections, the authors trace the rise of secular subjects - pastoral landscapes, female nudes, and romantic portraits - and the transformation of religious ones as well as innovations in style and technique. Cutting across genres, the book also focuses on the overarching themes of music, love, and time.Featuring essays by leading scholars, detailed entries on some of the most renowned pictures of sixteenth-century Italy, and revealing technical information, "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting" is an essential volume to own. Venice : society and culture, 1500-1530 by Deborah Howard 1 Chronology by Peter Humfrey 11 Venetian painting and the invention of art by David Alan Brown 15 Masters and pupils, colleagues and rivals by Peter Humfrey 39 Catalogue Sacred images by Peter Humfrey 55 Sacred stories by Mauro Lucco 99 Allegories and mythologies by Jaynie Anderson 147 Pictures of women - pictures of love by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden 189 Portraits of men by David Alan Brown 237 Technical studies Technical studies of painting methods by Elke Oberthaler and Elizabeth Walmsley 285 Venetian "colore" : artists at the intersection of technology and history by Barbara H. Berrie and Louisa C. Matthew 301 - EURO 150,00.-- lamguage : english text Size: Quarto