Lives of Titian

This volume in the series Lives of the Artists collects the major writings about Titian by his contemporaries and near contemporaries.The centerpiece is the biography by Vasari,who as a Florentine found Titian's very Venetian sense ofcolour and transient forms a challenge to his concept of art as design. The poet Ariosto and sparkling letter writer Aretino had a more nuanced view of their friend's work, and Priscianese's account of a dinner party with Titian, and the contributions by Speroni and Dolce, and the slightly later Tuscan critic Borghini, round out the picture of this hugely thoughtful, intellectual artist, whose paintings remain some of the most sensual and affecting in all of Western art.

ISBN: 9781843681717