Art History 636: Titian Syllabus Fall 2017 Prof. Benjamin Paul Office: Art History Dept., 60 College Ave, Room 101 A Office Hours: Wednesday, 2:45-3:45 pm and by appointment Tel.: 732-9320122, ext. 21 Email:
[email protected] Course description: Titian is the central figure in sixteenth-century Venetian art. In his long career he redefined virtually every aspect of Venetian painting including history painting, portraiture, the altarpiece, and ducal votive paintings. Together with Giorgione, he also invented the pastoral and introduced a new, much more open brushwork. This seminar will consider all these aspects within their historical context, discuss Titian’s style in relation to contemporary art theory, and investigate his self-fashioning as the Republic’s “Prince of Painters.” Requirements will include the weakly preparation of three questions concerning the readings, an oral report on specified readings and the object of the student’s research, as well as a written research paper (12 pages in double space). Textbook (not mandatory): Peter Humfrey, Titian , London, 2007. Sept. 6 Introduction David Rosand, Titian , New York, 1978 (introductory essay) Sept. 13 Venetian tonalism Marcia Hall, Color and Meaning. Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting , Cambridge, 1992, pp. 199-236; Paul Hills, “Titian’s Colour,” in Tiziano (ex. cat. Prado 2003), ed. by Miguel Falomir, pp. 308-313; Paul Joannides, Titian to 1518. The Assumption of a Genius , New Haven, 2001, pp. 7-17. Sept. 20 The Pastoral David Rosand, “Giorgione, Venice and the Pastoral Vision,” in: Places of Delight: The Pastoral Landscape , New York, 1998, pp. 21-81; Una Roman D’Elia, The Poetics of Titian’s Religious Paintings , ch.