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The Poetics of Titian's Religious Paintings Book

This book examines issues of sensuality and violence in Titian's religious paintings in context of the changing religious climate of sixteenth century Venice. Titian did not distinguish between sacred or secular subjects, instead using different decorum for paintings of different sizes, locations, or subjects. Titian painted according to the principles of genre: high subjects requiring grandiloquent rhetoric, pastoral ones humility, tragic martyrdom with violence, and the passion of the Magdalene, eroticism. Titan's decorous, but hardly restrained paintings became central models for Baroque painting, which suggests new ways to interpret the Counter Reformation and art.Read More

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    Titian's decorous, but hardly restrained, paintings became established examples for Baroque painters, suggesting new ways to interpret the Counter Reformation and art. This book examines issues of sensuality and violence in Titian's religious paintings in the context of the changing religious climate of sixteenth-century Venice. Rather than distinguish between sacred or secular subjects, Titian used different criteria for paintings of different sizes, locations, or subjects.

  • 0521827353
  • 9780521827355
  • Una Roman D'Elia
  • 7 March 2005
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 290
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