The Muddied Mirror - Materiality and Figuration in Titian's Later Paintings

Extends formalism to facture and situates the materiality of Titian's later works within the late sixteenth-century interest in embodiment and violence rather than within the Renaissance ideals of classicizing beauty and perfection.

About the author

Jodi Cranston is Associate Professor of Art History at Boston University. She is the author of The Poetics of Portraiture in the Italian Renaissance (1999).

Summary

Extends formalism to facture and situates the materiality of Titian's later works within the late sixteenth-century interest in embodiment and violence rather than within the Renaissance ideals of classicizing beauty and perfection.

Product details

• Authors: Jodi Cranston, Jodi (Professor Cranston, Cranston Jodi
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.02.2010
• EAN: 9780271035291
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03529-1
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; ART / History / General, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, Paintings and painting