Titian

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The first biography of Venices greatest artist since 1877
- a towering work which captures the genius of Titian. Devoted father & loyal friend Titian was notorious for disregarding authority & was an international celebrity by his late fifties. He was famously difficult but his stubbornness & horrendous timekeeping did nothing to deter his patrons who included the Hapsburgs the Pope & his family & Charles V. During his career which spanned more than seventy years Titian painted around five or six hundred pictures of which less than half survive. His work has been studied by generations of great artists from Rubens to Manet & he is often seen as having artistically transcended his own time. Sheila Hale not only examines his life both personal & professional but how his art affected his contemporaries & how it influences artists today. She also examines Venice in its context of a city at the time of the Renaissance overshadowed artistically by Rome & Florence & growing into the famous historical city it has become. This is an astonishing portrait of one of the most important figures in the history of Western art & a vivid evocation of Venice in its Golden Age.