Newburyport Public Library

Titian's vision of women, beauty - love - poetry, concept, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden ; edited by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Francesca Del Torre Scheuch and Wencke Deiters

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-358)

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Titian's vision of women

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concept, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden ; edited by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Francesca Del Torre Scheuch and Wencke Deiters

beauty - love - poetry

"A new ideal of feminine beauty arose in 16th-century Venice, as women acquired new rights of inheritance and more social power. As a result, through the writings of poets and humanists, the construction of the desired, beloved woman began to acquire civic significance. The crucial impetus for the visual realization of this ideal came from Venice's greatest artist: Titian. For him, artistic beauty was identical with female beauty. He was less interested in the canon of exterior beauty than in a woman's character, in femininity as such. Titian elevates every depiction of a woman into a celebration of womanhood. This book illustrates the Venetian representation of women in the 16th century, using comparisons between Titian and other painters of his time, such as Sebastiano del Piombo, Lotto, Palma il Vecchio, Paris Bordone, Veronese and Tintoretto. It surveys the various aspects of Late Renaissance female idealization: from realistic portraits to increasingly poetic variations, where female representation reaches its zenith as history, myth and allegory. This richly illustrated volume also looks at the clothes and coiffures sported by sitters in both real and ideal portraits, and discusses contemporary fashion with its predilection for sumptuous fabrics and costly jewels and pearls."--, Amazon.com

Foreword / Sabine Haag -- Preface / Sylvia Ferino-Pagden -- Lenders and Acknowledgments -- Titian's paintings of women: The power of beauty / Sylvia Ferino-Pagden -- Titian, Venice and the depiction of female beauty / Charles Hope -- Women in the literary culture in Titian's time / Amedeo Quondam -- Lives of women in Cinquecento Venice / Anna Bellavitis -- Reading Titian through Bonifacio, the meaning of gestures / Silvia Gazzola -- The eloquence of hair in Titian / Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo -- The dress of Venetian women 1500-1600 / Jane Bridgeman -- Open your heart / Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo -- Paintings -- Premise / Sylvia Ferino-Pagden -- "Le Belle Veneziane": Poeticized brides? / Sylvia Ferino-Pagden -- After Jacopo Palma Vecchio: "La Bella" / Robert Wald -- Gimmel rings / Paulus Rainer -- Painted covers / Sylvia Ferino-Pagden -- No less true than truth: Female portraiture between the real and the ideal / Beverly Louise Brown -- Vows of love and fidelity: Portraits of loving couples in early-sixteenth-century Venetian painting / Irina Artemieva -- "From these words they came to taking each other by the hands." The gestural semantics of a nuptial promise / Anouck Samyn -- Heroines and saints / Francesca Del Torre Scheuch -- Male and female humanists, poets and writing courtesans / Wencke Deiters -- From Venus to Danaë / Sylvia Ferino-Pagden -- Titian and Venus / Stefan Albl -- The "Poesie" and loves of the gods: Titian and after / Thomas Dalla Costa -- Titian's "Allegory" in the Biblioteca Marciana / Charles Hope -- Giorgione: "La Vecchia" / Bernard Aikema -- Epilogue: Titian's portrait of Clarice Strozzi / Beverly Louise Brown -- In memory of Rona Goffen / Giovanna Nepi Sciré -- Reference literature

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