The life of Titian
By: by Carlo Ridolfi ; edited by Julia Conaway Bondanella ... [et al.] ; translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella.
Contributors: Titian, ca. 1488-1576.; Bondanella, Julia Conaway.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Titian, ca. 1488-1576; Painters -- Italy -- Biography
Description: The Life of Titian by the seventeenth-century Venetian artist and writer Carlo Ridolfi is one of the most important contemporary documentary sources for our understanding of the great Renaissance artist. This new critical edition, the first translation into English of Ridolfi's biography, illuminates his life, his artistic production, and his early critical reputation. The editors address art-historical questions of attribution, provenance, and documentation that Ridolfi's biography raises.

Two introductory essays present the nature, scope, and importance of the biography for the study of Titian and Venetian Renaissance art and place Ridolfi in the tradition of Renaissance biography and artistic literature. The annotations provide a useful and current bibliography drawn from both art history and literature. The Life of Titian will be of interest to a wide audience of scholars and students of the history of Renaissance art, literature, language, and culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.