TITIAN AND THE END OF THE VENETIAN RENAISSANCE

Titian is best known for paintings that embodied the tradition of the Venetian Renaissancebut how Venetian was the artist himself? In this study, Tom Nichols probes the tensions between the individualism of Titians work and the conservative mores of the city, sh owing how his art undermined the traditional self-suppressing approach to painting in Venice and reflected his engagement with the i ndividualistic cultures emerging in the courts of early modern Europe. Ranging widely across Titians long career and varied works, Titian and th...[Read more]