Titian : the last days / Mark Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Mark, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Titian, approximately 1488-1576.

Titian.

Painters--Italy--Biography.

Painters.

Italy.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Walker, [2009]

Summary:

Only a handful of Titian's final paintings remain in existence, dispersed through galleries around the world. And there are no dates or documentation attached to any of them. We don't know precisely when they were painted, why and for whom. One of them was discovered only relatively recently, hanging in a remote monastery in the Czech Republic.

But the only one to have remained in Venice is the last one, the final Pietà in the Accademia, where we see the once proud artist on his knees, bald and half-naked, peering at the body of the dead Christ-crawling towards God and his own death. It's a painting I feel I've been waiting all my life to see.

Contents:

1 Towards Titian 1

2 The Most Talked About Building in Venice 25

3 The Sacred Conversation 35

4 The Archetypal Man 49

5 A Moment of Enormous Confusion 75

6 The Alabaster Room 90

7 Sixteen Positions 117

8 'The Obscenest Picture' 133

9 The Flesh Breathes 145

10 A Painting About Red 151

11 A Burnished, God-like Glow 169

12 Nothing is Fixed, Nothing Entirely Static 181

13 The Pure White Gleam of the Holy Spirit 218

14 Still in the Game 236

15 The Last Painting 258.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780802710765 :

080271076X :

OCLC:

401150912