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$65-00 TITIAN TINTORETTO -VERONESE RIVALS IN RENAISSANCE VENICE ♦ ♦ ♦ For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Renaissance Venice's three greatest painters— Titan, Tintoretto, and Veronese—overlapped, encour aging mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed the course of art history. Venice was then among Europe’s richest cities, and its plentiful commissions fostered an exceptionally fertile and innovative climate. In this environment, the three artists—brilliant, ambi tious, and fiercely competitive—vied with each other for primacy, deploying the new combination of oil on canvas, with its unique expressive possibilities, and such new approaches as a personal and identifiable signature touch. They also pioneered the use of easel painting, a newly portable format that allowed for unprecedented fame in their lifetimes. With more than 160 stunning examples by the three masters and their contempo raries, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese elucidates the techni cal and aesthetic innovations that helped define the “Venetian style”—characterized by loose technique, rich coloring, and often sensual subject matter—as well as the social, political, and economic context in which it flourished. Essays range from examinations of new approaches to studies of such crucial institutions as state commissions and the private patronage system. Most of all, by concentrating on the lives and careers of Venice’s three greatest painters, the volume presents a vibrant human portrait—one brimming with intense competition, one-upmanship, humor, and passion. 177 color and. 22 black-and-white illustrations TITIAN· TINTORETTO· 'VERONESE RIVA I.S IN RENAISSANCE VENICE TITIAN* TINTORETTO*-VERONESE RIVALS IN RENAISSANCE VENICE Frederick ilchman WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY Linda Borean, Patricia Fortini Brown, Vincent Delieuvin, Robert Echols, John Garton, Rhona MacBethjohn Marciari, David Rosand, Jonathan Unglaub, and Robert Wald J BOSTON MFA Publications Museum of Fine Arts, Boston AUG 2 6 2009 MFA PU BLIC?\TIONS For a complete listing of MFA publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston please contact the publisher at the above 465 Huntington Avenue address, or call 617 369 3438. Boston, Massachusetts 02115 www.mfa.org/publications Front cover: Titian, Venus with a Mirror, about 1555 (detail, cat. 30) This book was published in conjunction with Back cover: Tintoretto, Tarquin and Lucretia. the exhibition "Titian, Tintoretto. Veronese: 1578-80 (detail, cat. 46) Rivals in Renaissance Venice," organized by Pages 16-17: Giovanni Merlo, Map of Venice, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the 1670, published by Stefano Scolari. Courtesy Musée du Louvre, Paris. of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz— Max-Planck-lnstitut. Site numbers and key Museum of Fine Arts. Boston added by Mary Reilly and MFA Publications, March 15, 2009-August t6, 2009 with permission. Musée du Louvre, Paris September 14, 2009-January 4, 2010 Research assistance by Martha Clawson Linda Borean’s essay translated by Martha The exhibition is sponsored by Clawson and Frederick llchman Pioneer Investments and UniCredit Group. Vincent Delieuvin's contribution to "Late Styles" translated by Mark Polizzotti Edited by Matthew Battles, Mark Polizzotti. PIONEER and Sarah McGaughey Tremblay Investments Copyedited by Dalia Geffen and Jodi M. Simpson Designed by Cynthia Rockwell Randall UniCredit Group Produced by Cynthia Rockwell Randall and Jodi M. Simpson Printed and bound at Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Verona. Italy Generous support for the catalogue is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Publications Fund Available through and by Scott and Isabelle Black. D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers 155 Sixth Avenue. 2nd floor © 2009 by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston New York, New York 10013 ISBN 978-0-87846-739-6 (hardcover) Tel.: 212 627 1999 · Fax: 212 627 9484 isbn 978-0-87846-740-2 (softcover) Library of Congress Control Number: 2008941173 FIRST EDITION Printed and bound in Italy This book was printed on acid-free paper. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electron ic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is a nonprofit institution devoted to the promo tion and appreciation of the creative arts. The Museum endeavors to respect the copy rights of all authors and creators in a manner consistent with its nonprofit educational mis sion. If you feel any material has been includ ed in this publication improperly, please con tact the Department of Rights and Licensing at 617 267 9300, or by mail at the above address.
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