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Continuity and Change in Venetian View Online Renaissance Painting: 1440 -1590 (Semester 1)

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Recommended reading list (8 items)

The Renaissance in Venice: a world apart - Patricia Fortini Brown, 1997 Book

Art and life in Renaissance Venice - Patricia Fortini Brown, 1997 Book

Painting in Renaissance Venice - Peter Humfrey, 1995 Book

Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book

Renaissance art in Venice: from tradition to individualism - Tom Nichols, 2016 Book

Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 - Loren W. Partridge, 2015 Book

Painting in sixteenth-century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto - David Rosand, David Rosand, c1997 Book

The art of Renaissance Venice: architecture, sculpture, and painting, 1460-1590 - Norbert Huse, Wolfgang Wolters, c1990 Book

Week 2 (am) Lecture 3: St Mark and the Virgin in the City (1 items)

Set reading (1 items)

Art and life in Renaissance Venice - Patricia Fortini Brown, 1997 Book | The otherness of the Venetians pp 9-37

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Week 3 (am) Lecture 4: Saints Throughout the City: Parish Churches and the Houses of Religious Orders (1 items)

Set reading (1 items)

Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book | L. Matthew "Clergy and Confraternities" pp 106 - 127. Sections on scuole piccole and scuole grandi

Week 4 (pm) Lecture 7: Venetian Artists: Tradition and Identity (2 items)

Set reading (2 items)

Tintoretto - Tom Nichols, 2015 Book | Tintoretto, Tradition, Identity pp16-36

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 1999 Book | Tintoretto, Tradition, Identity pp 13-27

Week 5 (am) Seminar Presentations: Venetian Altarpieces (21 items)

A. Veronese, Holy Family with Saints Catherine and Anthony Abbot, c. 1550-51 (Giustinian Chapel, San Francesco della Vigna, Venice) (21 items) For this seminars consider the altarpiece as an examples of patrician patronage. Amongst other things you might like to think about possible reasons for the choice of artists by the patron. Also consider the altarpiece within the project of the church building as a whole (built by Francesco Sansovino and commissioned by the reformed branch of the Franciscans, funded in part by a doge).

The following texts give useful background (5 items)

Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book | Cooper, T. "Patricians and Citizens." 151-87. An excellent general discussion of the patronage of patricians and citizens in Venice.

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Jacopo Sansovino: architecture and patronage in Renaissance Venice - Deborah Howard, 1975 Book | 157-59, for the history of the church building

Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book | Matthew, L. "The Religious Orders." 128-141. Very useful for the Franciscan Observants.

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 2015 Book | The section on 'State Patronage' for a summary of the groups of patricians and cittadini and their approach to art patronage

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 1999 Book

Veronese, Holy Family with Saints Catherine and Anthony Abbot (5 items) NB THERE IS A TEXT BY HUMFREY AND HOLT WHICH IS NOT AVAILABLE IN THE LIBRARY. OBTAIN A COPY FROM THE MODULE LEADER.

Paolo Veronese: a master and his workshop in Renaissance Venice - Virginia Brilliant, Frederick Ilchman, Veronese, 2012 Book | See especially 151-62

Becoming Venetian: immigrants and the arts in early modern Venice - Blake De Maria, c2010 Book

The altarpiece in the Renaissance - Peter Humfrey, Martin Kemp, 1990 Book | P. Humfrey,"Co-ordinated Altarpieces in Renaissance Venice: the Progress of an Ideal." p190-211

Painting in sixteenth-century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto - David Rosand, David Rosand, c1997 Book

Veronese - Xavier F. Salomon, Veronese, 2014 Book | See the discussion surrounding text images numbers 20, 21, 29, 30, 48 for the likely sources of Veronese's approach to composition

B. Tintoretto, The Deposition of Christ, c.1564/65, (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh) (11 items) For this seminar consider the altarpiece as examples of citizen patronage. Amongst other things you might like to think about possible reasons for the choice of artist by the patron. Also consider the altarpiece within the project of the church building as a whole (built by Francesco Sansovino and commissioned by the reformed branch of the Franciscans, funded in part by a doge).

The following texts give useful background (5 items)

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Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book | Cooper, T. "Patricians and Citizens." 151-87. An excellent general discussion of the patronage of patricians and citizens in Venice.

Jacopo Sansovino: architecture and patronage in Renaissance Venice - Deborah Howard, 1975 Book

Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book | Matthew, L. "The Religious Orders." 128-141. Very useful for the Franciscan Observants.

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 2015 Book

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 1999 Book

Tintoretto, The Deposition of Christ (6 items)

Becoming Venetian: immigrants and the arts in early modern Venice - Blake De Maria, c2010 Book

The age of Titian: Venetian renaissance art from Scottish collections - Peter Humfrey, National Galleries of Scotland, 2004 Book

Tintoretto's 'Deposition of Christ' in the National Gallery of Scotland - Hugh MacAndrew, Deborah Howard, John Dick and Joyce Plesters, 1985 Article

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 2015 Book

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 1999 Book

Painting in sixteenth-century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto - David Rosand, David Rosand, c1997 Book

Week 5 (pm) Lecture 8: Continuity & Change: The family & the home (1 items)

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"Virtuous Riches": The Bricolage of Cittadini Identities in Early-Sixteenth-Century Venice - Monika Schmitter, 2004 Article

Week 6 (am and pm) Visit to the National Gallery, London (1 items)

Color and meaning: practice and theory in Renaissance painting - Marcia B. Hall, 1992 Book | pp 199-235 Chapter "Venice and the Development of Tonal Painting"

Week 7 (am) Seminar Presentations: Paintings for Venetian Scuole (18 items)

C. Tintoretto's decoration of the Albergo of the Scuola Grande di S. Rocco, 1564-67: Albergo ceiling paintings (9 items) Focus on the ceiling paintings in the Albergo. Consider how Tintoretto has taken account of the demands of creating an image of St. Roch and a wider ceiling programme for its setting, location and patrons. Consider the way the scheme develops key themes for the members of the Scuola. Also, outline how the central image of St Roch was important in the history of awarding the commission to Tintoretto.

Paolo Veronese: a master and his workshop in Renaissance Venice - Virginia Brilliant, Frederick Ilchman, Veronese, 2012 Book | pp 164 -65 for Veronese's possible competition entry

Others and outcasts in early modern Europe: picturing the social margins - Tom Nichols, 2007 Book | P. Cottrell "Poor substitutes: Imaging Disease and Vagrancy in Renaissance Venice pp 63-86. See this for the cult of St Roch in Venice.

Becoming Venetian: immigrants and the arts in early modern Venice - Blake De Maria, c2010 Book | pp 51-55 and 86-93

Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book | L. Matthew "Clergy and Confraternities" pp 117 - 127. Very useful for the general context.

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 2015 Book

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 1999 Book

The life of Tintoretto, and of his children Domenico and Marietta - Carlo Ridolfi, 1984 Book | pp 30-33 An early biography of Tintoretto and the source of our knowledge of his ploy to win this commission.

Painting in sixteenth-century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto - David Rosand, David Rosand, c1997

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Venetian painted ceilings of the Renaissance - Juergen Schulz, 1968 Book

D. Tintoretto's decoration of the Albergo of the Scuola Grande di S. Rocco, 1564-67: Albergo wall paintings (9 items) This is potentially a very unwieldy topic, so concentrate on a few key wall scenes as a way of illustrating your talk (though make sure that you include the Crucifixion). You are encouraged to consider the role and status of the patron and the development of key themes in the subject matter. Think about how these images address the charges of vanity and magnificence which were levelled at the scuola.

Becoming Venetian: immigrants and the arts in early modern Venice - Blake De Maria, c2010 Book | pp 51-55,86-93

Decorum and wit: the poetry of Venetian painting : essays in the history of the classical tradition - Philipp Fehl, 1992 Book | pp 178-79 For an interesting contemporary text by Aretino.

The image of Christ - Gabriele Finaldi, Susanna Avery-Quash, National Gallery (Great Britain), c2000 Book | Chapters 4 and 5 for the traditions of these kinds of images of Christ.

Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book | L. Matthew "Clergy and Confraternities" pp 117-127. Very useful for the general context.

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 2015 Book

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 1999 Book

The life of Tintoretto, and of his children Domenico and Marietta - Carlo Ridolfi, 1984 Book | pp 30-33

Painting in sixteenth-century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto - David Rosand, David Rosand, c1997 Book

The art of Renaissance Venice: architecture, sculpture, and painting, 1460-1590 - Norbert Huse, Wolfgang Wolters, c1990 Book

Week 7 (pm) Seminar Presentations: Artistic Sources & Rivalries (29 items)

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E. Titian and his Roman Rivals, Michelangelo, Raphael and the Antique. The Averoldi Altarpiece (aka the Brescia/Resurrection Polyptych) 1519-22 (7 items) How far does the Averoldi Altarpiece show evidence of Titian’s interest in Roman artists and models?

Some Findings on Early Works of Titian. - Gilbert, Creighton E., 1980 Article

Renaissance rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian - Rona Goffen, c2002 Book | esp. pp 280-297

The altarpiece in Renaissance Venice - Peter Humfrey, c1993 Book

Two Bronze Statuettes and their relation to Michelangelo - Paul Joannides, 1982 Article

The Cambridge companion to Titian - Patricia Meilman, 2004 Book | P. Joannides "Titian and Michelangelo/Michelangelo and Titian" pp 121-145

Titian and the end of the Venetian Renaissance - Tom Nichols, Titian, 2013 Book | pp 72-77

Titian's Saint Sebastians - David Rosand, 1994 Article

F. 'Michelangelo's design (disegno) and Titian's colouring (colorito)'. Tintoretto, The Miracle of the Slave, 1548, (Accademia, Venice) (11 items) Consider this painting by Tintoretto in light of his maxim, ‘Michelangelo’s design and Titian’s colouring’. In what ways does Tintoretto live up to this idea? Does he simply copy his models or is he in conversation with them?

Color and meaning: practice and theory in Renaissance painting - Marcia B. Hall, 1992 Book | 199ff whole chapter

Color and technique in Renaissance painting: Italy and the North - Marcia B. Hall, 1987 Book | L. Lazzarini "The use of color by Venetian painters" pp 115-136

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 2015 Book

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Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 1999 Book

Tintoretto - Francesco Valcanover, Terisio Pignatti, Tintoretto, 1985 Book

The life of Tintoretto, and of his children Domenico and Marietta - Carlo Ridolfi, 1984 Book | early biography of Tintoretto pp16-17

Painting in sixteenth-century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto - David Rosand, David Rosand, c1997 Book

For Michelangelesque sources (4 items)

Tintoretto and the Medici Tombs - David Coffin, 1951 Article

Tintoretto and Michelangelo's St Damian - Creighton Gilbert, 1961 Article

Michelangelo and his influence: drawings from Windsor Castle - Paul Joannides, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Fitzwilliam Museum, 1996 Book | pp19-29

The sculpted object, 1400-1700 - Stuart Currie, Peta Motture, c1997 Book | L. Whitaker "Tintoretto's drawings after sculpture and his workshop practice" pp 177-200

G. 'Michelangelo's design (disegno) and Titian's colouring (colorito)': Tintoretto, Christ washing the Disciples Feet, c.1547-0, (Prado, Madrid); (11 items) Consider this painting by Tintoretto in light of his maxim, ‘Michelangelo’s design and Titian’s colouring’. In what ways does Tintoretto live up to this idea? Does he simply copy his models or is he in conversation with them?

Color and meaning: practice and theory in Renaissance painting - Marcia B. Hall, 1992 Book | The whole chapter is interesting and the section on Tintoretto's Last Supper has some useful insights

Color and technique in Renaissance painting: Italy and the North - Marcia B. Hall, 1987 Book | L. Lazzarini "The use of color by Venetian Painters,1480-1580: Materials & Techniques."pp 115-136. Look particularly at the ways in which Lazzarini differentiates Titan's use of colour from that of Tintoretto.

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 1999 Book

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Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 2015 Book

Tintoretto - Francesco Valcanover, Terisio Pignatti, Tintoretto, 1985 Book

The life of Tintoretto, and of his children Domenico and Marietta - Carlo Ridolfi, 1984 Book | pp 16-17. An early biography of Tintoretto and the source of our knowledge of his working practices.

Painting in sixteenth-century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto - David Rosand, David Rosand, c1997 Book

For Michelangelesque sources (4 items)

Tintoretto and the Medici Tombs - David Coffin, 1951 Article

Tintoretto and Michelangelo's St Damian - Creighton Gilbert, 1961 Article

Michelangelo and his influence: drawings from Windsor Castle - Paul Joannides, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Fitzwilliam Museum, 1996 Book

The sculpted object, 1400-1700 - Stuart Currie, Peta Motture, c1997 Book | L. Whitaker "Tintoretto's drawings after sculpture and his workshop practice" pp 177-200

Week 8 (am) Seminar Presentations: Public Portraits (24 items)

H. Paolo Veronese, Allegory of the Battle of the Lepanto (aka Votive Portrait of Doge Sebastiano Venier), c.1578. (10 items) Place Veronese’s work within the wider context and expectations of state-sponsored art in Venice and the significance of events surrounding the battle of Lepanto and Venier’s career. You may also wish to consider Veronese’s picture alongside similar votive pictures, and address the decoration of the Sala del Collegio in the Doge’s Palace.

Veronese's drawings: a catalogue raisonne - Richard Cocke, Veronese, 1984 Book

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Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book | D. Howard "The State" pp 34-38

The Renaissance portrait: from Donatello to Bellini - Keith Christiansen, Stefan Weppelmann, Patricia Lee Rubin, Bode-Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), c2011 Book | P. Humfrey "The Portrait in Fifteenth-Century Venice" pp 48-63

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 2015 Book | pp 121-126 - interesting comment regarding another votive painting

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 1999 Book | pp 121-126 - interesting comment regarding another votive painting

The art of Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588 - William R. Rearick, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), c1988 Book

The changes in the Iconography and composition of Veronese's Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto in the Doge's Palace - Staale Sinding-Larsen, 1956 Article

The art of Renaissance Venice: architecture, sculpture, and painting, 1460-1590 - Norbert Huse, Wolfgang Wolters, c1990 Book | Chapter 9

For the wider iconography of the Sala (2 items)

Palladio's Venice: architecture and society in a Renaissance republic - Tracy E. Cooper, c2005 Book | pp 199-204 - for a little more on the ceiling of the room.

Venetian painted ceilings of the Renaissance - Juergen Schulz, 1968 Book | pp 104-106

I. Tintoretto, The Madonna of the Treasurers, 1566 (Venice, Accademia) (8 items) Investigate Tintoretto’s painting in light of the context of the Camerlenghi Palace and its programme of decoration. Consider the way in which Tintoretto negotiates the issue of portraiture in light of its representation of his subjects as individuals and as part of the group.

Becoming Venetian: immigrants and the arts in early modern Venice - Blake De Maria, c2010 Book

Corporate Colors: Bonifacio and Tintoretto at the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice. - Cottrell, Philip, 2000

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Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book | D. Howard "The State" pp 68-78, very useful for the wider context; see also the essay by Cooper, esp pp 152-54

Treasures of Venetian painting: the Gallerie dell'Accademia - Giovanna Scire ̀ Nepi, 1991 Book

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 2015 Book | pp 110-26

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 1999 Book | pp 110-26

Tintoretto - Francesco Valcanover, Terisio Pignatti, Tintoretto, 1985 Book

The art of Renaissance Venice: architecture, sculpture, and painting, 1460-1590 - Norbert Huse, Wolfgang Wolters, c1990 Book | Read Chapter 10

J: Veronese, The Cuccina Family Cycle, c.1472 (Gemaldegalerie, Dresden) (6 items) Consider the 4 paintings (the Cuccina Family Cycle) painted by Veronese for the portego of the Cuccina Palace in Venice. In what ways do these paintings link ‘Alvise Cuccina’s spiritual beliefs and economic success with his newly adopted homeland of Venice’ (de Maria, 159)? The majority of your focus should be on The Cuccina Family Presented to the Madonna and Child.

Paolo Veronese: a master and his workshop in Renaissance Venice - Virginia Brilliant, Frederick Ilchman, Veronese, 2012 Book

Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book | T. Cooper "Patricians and Citizens"pp 151-154

Becoming Venetian: immigrants and the arts in early modern Venice - Blake De Maria, c2010 Book | Especially Chapter 7 but follow your nose since this book includes numerous references to the Cuccina family

The sixteenth-century Italian paintings: Vol. 2: Venice 1540-1600 - Nicholas Penny, National Gallery (Great Britain), 2008 Book | xiv, pp 227-29

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The art of Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588 - William R. Rearick, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), c1988 Book

The Quadro da Portego in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Art. - SCHMITTER, MONIKA1, 2011 Article

Week 8 (pm) Lecture 10: Images of Venetian Women (1 items)

The book of the courtier - Baldassare Castiglione, George Bull, 1976 Book | pp 324 - 341

Week 9 (am) Seminar Presentations: Paintings with personal or ambiguous meanings (25 items)

K. Giovanni Bellini, St Francis, c. 1475-80, New York, Frick Collection. (8 items) Consider in terms of subject, iconography and technique – all elements which will have been of interest to its fifteenth- and sixteenth-century audiences. Think about Bellini’s use of tempera and oil and the effects that this allowed him to achieve. What does the painting reveal about the wishes and expectations of art collectors during this period?

Giorgione: the painter of 'poetic brevity' : including catalogue raisonne ́ - Jaynie Anderson, c1997 Book | pp 148-160 for Taddeo Contarini

The Joy of St Francis: Bellini's Panel in the Frick Collection - Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, Jinyu Liu, Adam Gitner, 2007 Article

Bellini and the Meditational "poesia" - Keith Christiansen, 2013 Article

The Provenance of Bellini's Frick 'St Francis' - J. M. Fletcher, 1972 Article

Bellini's Ass: A Note on the Frick 'St Francis' - Norman Hammond, 2002 Article

The Meaning of the Landscape in Bellini's "St. Francis in Ecstasy" - Anthony F. Janson, 1994 Article

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The Cambridge companion to Giovanni Bellini - Peter Humfrey, 2004 Book | M. Lucco "Bellini and Flemish Painting" pp 75-94

Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 - Loren W. Partridge, 2015 Book | See 82-85 for a good summary of possible meanings but neglecting other aspects of the topic. See also the introduction to this section on page 81.

L. Titian, The Three Ages of Man, c.1512-13 (Edinburgh, National Gallery of Art) (10 items) Consider in terms of subject, iconography and the artist’s treatment of them – all elements which will have been of interest to its sixteenth-century audiences. What does the painting reveal about the wishes and expectations of art collectors during this period?

Titian's women - Rona Goffen, c1997 Book | pp 25-33

Titian 500 - Joseph Manca, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), c1993 Book | P. Holberton "The Pastorale or Fete champetre in the Early Sixteenth Century" pp 245 - 62

The pipes in Titian's "Three ages of man" - P. Holberton, 2003 Article | In Apollo Vol. 157: pp 26-30; in print format in Library Basement, J 700/A

Titian - Charles Hope, 2003 Book

The Patron and Early Provenance of Titian's 'Three Ages of Man' - Peter Humfrey, 2003 Article

The age of Titian: Venetian renaissance art from Scottish collections - Peter Humfrey, National Galleries of Scotland, 2004 Book

Titian's 'Daphnis and Chloe' - P. Joannides, 1991 Article | In Apollo vol. 352: pp 374-82; in print format in Library Basement, J 700/A

Titian to 1518: the assumption of genius - Paul Joannides, c2001 Book | pp193-201

Problems in Titian, mostly iconographic - Erwin Panofsky, 1969 Book | pp 94-99

The X-Ray Examination of Titian's 'Three Ages of Man' in the Bridgewater House Collection - Giles Robertson, 1971 Article

M. Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, c. 1514 (Villa Borghese, Rome) (7

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items) Consider in terms of subject, iconography and the artist’s treatment of them – all elements which will have been of interest to its sixteenth-century audiences. What does the painting reveal about the wishes and expectations of its patron?

Art and love in Renaissance Italy - Andrea Bayer, Sarah Cartwright, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 2009 Book | B.L. Brown "Picturing the perfect Marriage: The Equilibrium of Sense and Sensibility in Titian's 'Sacred and Profane Love" pp 238-45

Some Findings on Early Works of Titian. - Gilbert, Creighton E., 1980 Article

Titian 500 - Joseph Manca, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), c1993 Book | R. Goffen "Titian's Sacred and Profane Love" pp 121-138

Titian - Charles Hope, David Jaffe ́ , National Gallery (Great Britain), 2003 Book

Titian to 1518: the assumption of genius - Paul Joannides, c2001 Book | pp 185-193

Honour, love and truth, an alternative reading of Titian's - Giles Robertson, 1988-10 Article

Places of delight: the pastoral landscape - Robert C. Cafritz, Lawrence Gowing, David Rosand, Phillips Collection, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), (1988?) Book | D. Rosand "Giorgione, Venice and the Pastoral Vision." pp 20-81

Week 9 (pm) Lecture 11: Writing Venetian Art History: mediocritas v magnificentia (1 items)

Set reading (1 items)

Venice and the Renaissance - Manfredo Tafuri, c1989 Book | M. Tafuri "Memoria et Prudentia Patrician Mentalities and res aedificatoria" pp 1-14 (with exercise).

Week 11 (am and pm) Lecture 12 Titian in the city and at court (1 items)

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Set reading (1 items)

The Cambridge companion to Titian - Patricia Meilman, 2004 Book | "An Introduction to Titian: Context and Career" pp 1-32

Bibliography (118 items)

Key Texts (8 items)

The Renaissance in Venice: a world apart - Patricia Fortini Brown, 1997 Book | this same book is also published under a different title: Fortini Brown,P. Art and Life in Renaissance Venice. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 1997

Art and life in Renaissance Venice - Patricia Fortini Brown, 1997 Book

Painting in Renaissance Venice - Peter Humfrey, 1995 Book

Venice and the Veneto - Peter Humfrey, 2007 Book

Renaissance art in Venice: from tradition to individualism - Tom Nichols, 2016 Book

Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 - Loren W. Partridge, 2015 Book

Painting in sixteenth-century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto - David Rosand, David Rosand, c1997 Book

The art of Renaissance Venice: architecture, sculpture, and painting, 1460-1590 - Norbert Huse, Wolfgang Wolters, c1990 Book

Primary Written Sources (6 items)

Venice: a documentary history, 1450-1630 - David Chambers, Jennifer Fletcher, Brian S. Pullan, Renaissance Society of America, c2001 Book | A fascinating compendium of source material

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Italian art, 1400-1500: sources and documents - Creighton Gilbert, 1980 Book

Italian art 1500-1600: sources and documents - Robert Klein, Henri Zerner, 1966 Book

Renaissance art reconsidered: an anthology of primary sources - Carol M. Richardson, Kim Woods, Michael W. Franklin, c2007 Book | Includes a section on Venice.

Sansovino's Venice - Francesco Sansovino, 2017 Book

Venice: cita` excelentissima : selections from the Renaissance diaries of Marin Sanudo - Marino Sanudo, Patricia H. Labalme, Laura Sanguineti White, c2008 Book

Renaissance Venice (13 items)

The imperial age of Venice, 1380-1580 - David Chambers, 1970 Book

Becoming Venetian: immigrants and the arts in early modern Venice - Blake De Maria, c2010 Book

Politics in Renaissance Venice - Robert Finlay, 1980 Book

Private lives in Renaissance Venice: art, architecture, and the family - Patricia Fortini Brown, 2004 Book

Venetian colour: marble, mosaic, painting and glass 1250-1550 - Paul Hills, c1999 Book

Patronage in Renaissance Italy: from 1400 to the early sixteenth century - Mary Hollingsworth, 1994 Book

Patronage in sixteenth-century Italy - Mary Hollingsworth, 1996 Book

The architectural history of Venice - Deborah Howard, 1980 Book | The module does not focus on architecture. This compact volume should fill in background where necessary

The altarpiece in Renaissance Venice - Peter Humfrey, c1993 Book

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Culture and society in Venice, 1470-1790: the Renaissance and its heritage - Oliver Logan, 1972 Book

The Genius of Venice 1500-1600 - Jane Martineau, Charles Hope, Royal Academy of Arts, Sea Containers Group, Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Limited, 1983 Book

The sixteenth-century Italian paintings: Vol. 2: Venice 1540-1600 - Nicholas Penny, National Gallery (Great Britain), 2008 Book | as a supplement to Penny's catalogue, the National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Vol 34, 2013, is dedicated to "Titian's Painting Technique before 1540" and contains detailed essays on the earlier Titian paintings in the Nat Gallery's collection

Locating Renaissance art - Carol M. Richardson, Open University, 2007 Book | P. Wood "An aesthetic of diversity:Venice and the East"

Art Theory and Criticism (15 items)

On painting - Leon Battista Alberti, John R. Spencer, 1966 Book | First published in Latin in 1435 and then in Italian in 1436

The intellectual life of the early Renaissance artist - Francis Ames-Lewis, c2000 Book

The Anonimo; notes on pictures and works of art in Italy made by an anonymous writer in the sixteenth century - Marcantonio Michiel, 1903 Book | The Anonimo, notes on pictures and works of art in Italy made by an anonymous writer in the sixteenth century, edited by George C. Williamson. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1903. These notes were written by Marcantonio Michiel in the early sixteenth century. The text is a valuable description of works of art in public spaces and private collections in this period. This 1903 edition is available online: https://archive.org/details/anonimonotesonpi00michrich

The letters of Pietro Aretino - Pietro Aretino, 1967 Book

Artistic theory in Italy, 1450-1600 - Anthony Blunt, 1940 Book

The Ashgate research companion to Giorgio Vasari - 2014 Book

The book of the courtier - Baldassare Castiglione, George Bull, 1976 Book | Written from c.1508 onwards and first published in 1528.

Cennino Cennini's Il libro dell'arte: a new English translation and commentary with Italian transcription - Cennino Cennini, Lara Broecke, 2015 Book | Written in the 1390s

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Florence and Venice, comparisons and relations: acts of two Conferences at Villa I Tatti in 1976-1977 organized by Sergio Bertelli, Nicolai Rubinstein, and Craig Hugh Smyth, Volume 1: Quattrocento - Villa I Tatti, 1979 Book | S. Freedberg "Disegno versus Colore in Florentine and Venetian Painting of the Cinquecento" 309-22

The Genius of Venice 1500-1600 - Jane Martineau, Charles Hope, Royal Academy of Arts, Sea Containers Group, Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Limited, 1983 Book | C. Hope "The Historians of Venetian Painting" 38-40

The life of Tintoretto, and of his children Domenico and Marietta - Carlo Ridolfi, 1984 Book | Originally published in 1642

Dolce's Aretino and Venetian art theory of the Cinquecento - Mark Roskill, 1968 Book

Giorgio Vasari: art and history - Patricia Lee Rubin, c1995 Book

Lives of the painters, sculptors and architects - 1996 Book | Volume 1; lots of other English versions available.

Lives of the painters, sculptors and architects - 1996 Book | Volume 2; lots of other English versions available.

Painting (8 items)

Renaissance Venice and the north: crosscurrents in the time of Du ̈ rer, Bellini and Titian - Bernard Aikema, Beverly Louise Brown, 1999 Book

Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian painting - David Alan Brown, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Jaynie Anderson, Barbara Hepburn Berrie, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 2006 Book

Venetian painting matters, 1450-1750 - 2015 Book

Venetian narrative painting in the age of Carpaccio - Patricia Fortini Brown, 1988 Book

The Venetian Trade Guilds as Patrons of Art in the Renaissance - Peter Humfrey and Richard MacKenney, 1986 Article

Treasures of Venetian painting: the Gallerie dell'Accademia - Giovanna Scire

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̀ Nepi, 1991 Book

The anxieties of a citizen class: the miracles of the true cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480 - Kiril Petkov, 2014 Book

Venetian painted ceilings of the Renaissance - Juergen Schulz, 1968 Book

Painters (68 items)

The Bellini (Jacopo, Gentile, Giovanni) (9 items)

Giovanni Bellini - Oskar Ba ̈ tschmann, 2008 Book

The genius of Jacopo Bellini: the complete paintings and drawings - Colin T. Eisler, 1988 Book

Bellini, S. Giobbe and Altar Egos - Rona Goffen, 1986 Article

Giovanni Bellini - Rona Goffen, c1989 Book

Piety and patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans - Rona Goffen, c1986 Book

The Cambridge companion to Giovanni Bellini - Peter Humfrey, 2004 Book

Giovanni Bellini and the art of devotion - Giovanni Bellini, Ronda Kasl, Keith Christiansen, c2004 Book

Giovanni Bellini - Giles Robertson, 1980 Book

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Bonifacio de' Pitati (Bonifacio Veronese) (3 items)

Corporate Colors: Bonifacio and Tintoretto at the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice. - Cottrell, Philip, 2000 Article

Vice, Vagrancy and Villa Culture: Bonifacio de' Pitati's "Dives and Lazarus" in Its Venetian Context - Philip Cottrell, 2005-01-01 Article

Others and outcasts in early modern Europe: picturing the social margins - Tom Nichols, 2007 Book | P. Cottrell "Poor substitutes: Imaging Disease and Vagrancy in Renaissance Venice" 63-85

Carpaccio & Scuola Decoration (2 items)

Venetian narrative painting in the age of Carpaccio - Patricia Fortini Brown, 1988 Book

PAINTING AND HISTORY IN RENAISSANCE VENICE. - Brown, Patricia Fortini1 Article | 263-294

Cima da Conegliano (1 items)

Cima da Conegliano - Peter Humfrey, 1983 Book

Giorgione (4 items)

Giorgione: the painter of 'poetic brevity' : including catalogue raisonne ́ - Jaynie Anderson, c1997 Book

Giorgione - Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo, Giorgione, 2009 Book

Giorgione - Terisio Pignatti, Filippo Pedrocco, Giorgione, c1999 Book

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Lorenzo Lotto (2 items)

Lorenzo Lotto: rediscovered master of the Renaissance - David Alan Brown, Peter Humfrey, Mauro Lucco, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), 1997 Book

Lorenzo Lotto - Peter Humfrey, 1997 Book

Palma Vecchio & Palma Giovane (3 items)

Art of the Italian Renaissance - Andre ́ Chastel, Andre ́ Chastel, 1988 Book | "Rivalries in Venice: the competition for the St Peter Martyr (1528-30)" 170-187. This book also published as A chronicle of Italian Renaissance Painting.

The Artistic Parentage of Palma Giovane - Philip Cottrell, 2002 Article

Palma Vecchio - Philip Rylands, 1992 Book

Pordenone (3 items)

Titian and Pordenone - Walter Friedlaender, 1965-03 Article | pp 118-121

Pordenone versus Titian - C. Gould, 1972 Article | In Apollo Vol. 116: pp 106-10; in print format in Library Basement, J 700/A

Sebastiano del Piombo (1 items)

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Sebastiano del Piombo - Michael Hirst, Sebastiano, 1981 Book

Schiavone (1 items)

Andrea Schiavone - Francis L. Richardson, Andrea Schiavone, 1980 Book

Tintoretto (7 items)

Corporate Colors: Bonifacio and Tintoretto at the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice - Philip Cottrell, 2000 Article

PIETY AND PATRONAGE IN CINQUECENTO VENICE: TINTORETTO AND THE SCUOLE DEL SACRAMENTO. - Hills, Paul Article

Tintoretto's 'Deposition of Christ' in the National Gallery of Scotland - Hugh MacAndrew, Joyce Plesters, John Dick, Deborah Howard, 1985 Article

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 1999 Book

Tintoretto: tradition and identity - Tom Nichols, 2015 Book

Tintoretto - Francesco Valcanover, Terisio Pignatti, Tintoretto, 1985 Book

Painting in sixteenth-century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto - David Rosand, David Rosand, c1997 Book

Titian (19 items)

Piety and patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans - Rona Goffen, c1986 Book

Titian's women - Rona Goffen, c1997 Book

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Renaissance rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian - Rona Goffen, c2002 Book

Titian - Charles Hope, 2003 Book

Titian - Charles Hope, David Jaffe ́ , National Gallery (Great Britain), 2003 Book

GIORGIONE'S TEMPESTA AND TITIAN'S ASSUNTA IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CAMBRAI WARS. - Howard, Deborah Article

The age of Titian: Venetian renaissance art from Scottish collections - Peter Humfrey, National Galleries of Scotland, 2004 Book

Titian to 1518: the assumption of genius - Paul Joannides, c2001 Book

Titian 500 - Joseph Manca, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), c1993 Book

Titian and the altarpiece in renaissance Venice - Patricia Meilman, 2000 Book

The Cambridge companion to Titian - Patricia Meilman, 2004 Book

Titian and the end of the Venetian Renaissance - Tom Nichols, Titian, 2013 Book

Titian & tragic painting: Aristotle's poetics and the rise of the modern artist - Thomas Puttfarken, c2005 Book

Painting in sixteenth-century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto - David Rosand, David Rosand, c1997 Book

Titian: his world and his legacy - David Rosand, 1982 Book

The Paintings of Titian: complete edition. Vol. 1, The Religious paintings - Harold E. Wethey , 1969 Book

The paintings of Titian: complete edition. Vol.2, Portraits - Harold E. Wethey, Titian, 1971

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The paintings of Titian: complete edition. Vol.3, The mythological and historical paintings - Harold E. Wethey, Titian, 1975 Book

Veronese (7 items)

Paolo Veronese: a master and his workshop in Renaissance Venice - Virginia Brilliant, Frederick Ilchman, Veronese, 2012 Book

Veronese's drawings: a catalogue raisonne - Richard Cocke, Veronese, 1984 Book

Decorum and wit: the poetry of Venetian painting : essays in the history of the classical tradition - Philipp Fehl, 1992 Book

The art of Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588 - William R. Rearick, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), c1988 Book

Painting in sixteenth-century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto - David Rosand, David Rosand, c1997 Book

Veronese - Xavier F. Salomon, Veronese, 2014 Book

Since there are many paintings by Veronese in both the National Gallery, London; and the Accademia, Venice, it is worth consulting surveys of their collections by Penny and Nepi Scire respectively.

The Vivarini (Antonio, Bartolomeo, Alvise) (6 items)

The Early History of Antonio Vivarini's 'St Jerome' Altar-Piece and the Beginnings of the Renaissance Style in Venice - Ian Holgate, 2001 Article

Giovanni d'Alemagna, Antonio Vivarini and the Early History of the Ovetari Chapel - Ian Holgate, 2003 Article

Bartolomeo Vivarini's "Saint James" Polyptych and Its Provenance - Peter Humfrey, 1994 Article

Alvise Vivarini: his art and influence - John Steer, 1982 Book

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The Patron of Bartolomeo Vivarini's 1464 Polyptych for S. Andrea della Certosa, Venice - Susan Steer, 2002 Article

Tota pulchra, et formosa es Maria et macula originalis non est in te: The Congregation of Clergy at Santa Maria Formosa, Venice, and Their Altar of the Immaculate Conception - Susan Steer, 2006 Article

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