Titian
Subtitle: A Fresh Look at Nature
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781857095449
Subjects: Titian, approximately 1488-1576; Art criticism; Nature (aesthetics)
Description: In this short illustrated book, Mazzotta presents the experience, together with Titian's native landscape of PievediCadore, as crucial influence in the artist's early representation of nature. The recently restored "Flight into Egypt" (now in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg) - probably painted when Titian was still a teenager - is a vivid proof of his interest in the depiction of animals, plants and figures in the landscape. The chosen comparisons by the author suggest that Titian was as innovative and as influential in his view of nature as he was in portraiture.