The Poetics of Titian's Religious Paintings
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Review "D'Elia's well-informed text is centered on a discussion of decorum, and of the ways in which religious subjects were handled by Titan and by his contemporaries, including, of course, writeres. She is responsible and perceptive in her use of evidence and provides many interesting observations." - Charles Hope, The Burlington Magazine"Una Roman D'Elia succeeds in presenting Titian's artistic ancestry, his poet contemporaries and near contemporaries and the city's development from the autonomous republic with a free press to the site of implementation of Trent's decrees as the Counter-Feformation lightened its grip." - Art & Christianity, July 2005 Read more Book Description This book examines issues of sensuality and violence in Titian's religious paintings in context of the changing religious climate of sixteenth century Venice. Titian did not distinguish between sacred or secular subjects, instead using different decorum for paintings of different sizes, locations, or subjects. Titian painted according to the principles of genre: high subjects requiring grandiloquent rhetoric, pastoral ones humility, tragic martyrdom with violence, and the passion of the Magdalene, eroticism. Titan's decorous, but hardly restrained paintings became central models for Baroque painting, which suggests new ways to interpret the Counter Reformation and art. Read more See all Editorial Reviews
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