Titian and tragic painting
Subtitle: Aristotle's 'poetics' and the rise of the modern artist
By: Thomas Puttfarken.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Titian, ca. 1488-1576 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Aristotle -- Influence.; Tragic, The, in art.; Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics); Painting, Renaissance -- Italy.; Painters -- Italy -- Social conditions -- History -- 16th century.
Description: "Late in his life Titian created a series of paintings - the 'Four Sinners', the 'poesie' for his patron Philip II of Spain, and the 'Final Tragedies' - that were dark in tone and content, full of pathos and physical suffering." "In this major reinterpretation of Titian's art, Thomas Puttfarken shows that the often dramatic and violent subject matter of these works was not, as is often argued, the consequence of the artist's increasing age and sense of isolation and tragedy. Rather, these paintings were influenced by discussions of Aristotle's Poetics that permeated learned discourse in Italy in the mid-sixteenth century."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: On the status of painting in the Renaissance; title: Painting, poetry and the liberal arts; title: Imitation, moral purpose and learning; title: Tragedy; title: Titian and tragedy; title: The four great sinners; title: Michelangelo and Titian: 'terribilità' and tragic 'pathos'; title: Titian's mythological paintings: problems of interpretation; title: Titian's 'poesie' for Philip II as painted tragedies; title: The final tragedies and Titian's 'late style'; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.