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Continuity and Change in Venetian Renaissance Painting: 1440 -1590 | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists 09/25/21 Continuity and Change in Venetian Renaissance Painting: 1440 -1590 | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Continuity and Change in Venetian View Online Renaissance Painting: 1440 -1590 (Semester 1) 252 items 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 1/25 09/25/21 Continuity and Change in Venetian Renaissance Painting: 1440 -1590 | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists 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. 2/25 09/25/21 Continuity and Change in Venetian Renaissance Painting: 1440 -1590 | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists 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) 3/25 09/25/21 Continuity and Change in Venetian Renaissance Painting: 1440 -1590 | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists 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) 4/25 09/25/21 Continuity and Change in Venetian Renaissance Painting: 1440 -1590 | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists "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 5/25 09/25/21 Continuity and Change in Venetian Renaissance Painting: 1440 -1590 | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Book 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
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