Tintoretto

Author : Tom Nichols
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780234816

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Tintoretto by Tom Nichols Pdf

Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–94) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. His radically unorthodox paintings are not readily classifiable, and although he was a Venetian by birth, his standing as a member of the Venetian school is constantly contested. But he was also a formidable maverick, abandoning the humanist narratives and sensuous color palette typical of the great Venetian master, Titian, in favor of a renewed concentration on core Christian subjects painted in a rough and abbreviated chiaroscuro style. This generously illustrated book offers an extensive analysis of Tintoretto’s greatest paintings, charting his life and work in the context of Venetian art and the culture of the Cinquecento. Tom Nichols shows that Tintoretto was an extraordinarily innovative artist who created a new manner of painting, which, for all of its originality and sophistication, was still able to appeal to the shared emotions of the widest possible audience. This compact, pocket edition features sixteen additional illustrations and a new afterword by the author, and it will continue to be one of the definitive treatments of this once grossly overlooked master.

Author : Giorgio Vasari,Pietro Aretino,Andrea Calmo,Veronica Franco,Carlo Ridolfi
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066003

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Lives of Tintoretto by Giorgio Vasari,Pietro Aretino,Andrea Calmo,Veronica Franco,Carlo Ridolfi Pdf

Born Jacopo Comin, Tintoretto (ca. 1519–1594) was one of the great painters of the late Renaissance. This book presents the first biographies of Tintoretto, by Giorgio Vasari and Carlo Ridolfi, as well as accounts from individuals who knew the artist personally. This volume also includes a translation of the marginal notes El Greco wrote in his copy of Vasari’s Life of Tintoretto, which have never before been published. Richly illustrated, with an introduction by the scholar Carlo Corsato that reconstructs Tintoretto’s career and contextualizes the contemporary sources, Lives of Tintoretto enhances our understanding of this influential Renaissance artist, who helped establish the Mannerist style.

Author : Kamini Vellodi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350083066

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Tintoretto's Difference by Kamini Vellodi Pdf

A provocative account of the philosophical problem of 'difference' in art history, Tintoretto's Difference offers a new reading of this pioneering 16th century painter, drawing upon the work of the 20th century philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Bringing together philosophical, art historical, art theoretical and art historiographical analysis, it is the first book-length study in English of Tintoretto for nearly two decades and the first in-depth exploration of the implications of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy for the understanding of early modern art and for the discipline of art history. With a focus on Deleuze's important concept of the diagram, Tintoretto's Difference positions the artist's work within a critical study of both art history's methods, concepts and modes of thought, and some of the fundamental dimensions of its scholarly practice: context, tradition, influence, and fact. Indicating potentials of the diagrammatic for art historical thinking across the registers of semiotics, aesthetics, and time, Tintoretto's Difference offers at once an innovative study of this seminal artist, an elaboration of Deleuze's philosophy of the diagram, and a new avenue for a philosophical art history.

Author : Robert Echols,Frederick Ilchman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Painters
ISBN : 0300230400

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Tintoretto by Robert Echols,Frederick Ilchman Pdf

Considered one of the three greatest painters of sixteenth-century Venice, along with Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto was a bold innovator. His free, expressive brushwork made his work look unfinished to contemporaries but is now recognized as a key step in the development of oil-on-canvas painting. Even today's audiences are astonished by the superhuman scale, painterly dynamism, and visionary qualities of his work. On the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto's birth, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of his career and achievement, with fifteen essays and reproductions of more than 140 paintings--many newly conserved--as well as a selection of his finest drawings. One special contribution is a focus on the artist's portraiture.--Provided by publisher.

Author : Giorgio Vasari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Art
ISBN : HARVARD:32044108133109

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Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari Pdf

Author : Frederick Ilchman,Linda Borean
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Painting, Italian
ISBN : UCSD:31822036281608

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Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese by Frederick Ilchman,Linda Borean Pdf

"For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Renaissance Venice's three greatest painters - Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese - overlapped, encouraging mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed the course of art history. Venice was then among Europe's richest cities, and its plentiful commissions fostered an exceptionally fertile and innovative climate. In this environment, the three artists - brilliant, ambitious, and fiercely competitive - vied with each other for primacy, deploying the new combination of oil on canvas, with its unique expressive possibilities, and such new approaches as a personal and identifiable signature touch. They also pioneered the use of easel painting, a newly portable format that allowed for unprecedented fame in their lifetimes. With more than 160 stunning examples by the three masters and their contemporaries, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese elucidates the technical and aesthetic innovations that helped define the "Venetian style"--Characterized by loose technique. rich coloring, and often sensual subject matter - as well as the social, political, and economic context in which it flourished. Essays range from examinations of new approaches to studies of such crucial institutions as state commissions and the private patronage system. Most of all, by concentrating on the lives and careers of Venice's three greatest painters, the volume presents a vibrant human portrait - one brimming with intense competition, one-upmanship, humor, and passion."--Jacket.

Author : Tom Nichols
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Painters
ISBN : UOM:39076001989362

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Tintoretto by Tom Nichols Pdf

The Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto (1518 94) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. Critics and writers such as Vasari, Ruskin and Sartre all placed him in opposition to the established artistic practice of his time, noting that he had abandoned the values that typified the venerable Venetian Renaissance tradition, even being expelled as an apprentice from the workshop of Titian. This generously illustrated book offers a long-overdue re-evaluation of Tintoretto. Tom Nichols charts the artist's life and work in the context of Venetian art and the culture of the Cinquecento. He shows how the artist created a new manner of painting, which for all its originality and sophistication made its first appeal to the shared emotions of the widest-possible viewing audience. The book deals extensively with Tintoretto's greatest works, including the paintings at the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice."

Author : Evelyn March Phillipps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Artists
ISBN : UOM:39015017060958

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Tintoretto by Evelyn March Phillipps Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Painting, Italian
ISBN : OCLC:1323304822

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Tintoretto by Anonim Pdf

Author : Narim Bender
Publisher : Osmora Incorporated
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9782765913498

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Jacopo Tintoretto: 60 Drawings by Narim Bender Pdf

Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Comin) was an Italian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso. His work is characterized by its muscular figures, dramatic gestures, and bold use of perspective in the Mannerist style, while maintaining color and light typical of the Venetian School. He is said to have trained very briefly with Titian, but the style of his immature works suggests that he may also have studied with Bonifacio Veronese, Paris Bordone, or Schiavone. Almost all of his life was spent in Venice and most of his work is still in the churches or other buildings for which it was painted. He appears to have been unpopular because he was unscrupulous in procuring commissions and ready to undercut his competitors. Tintoretto used to make small wax models which he arranged on a stage and experimented on with spotlights for effects of light and shade and composition. He was a formidable draughtsman and, according to Ridolfi, he had inscribed on his studio wall the motto 'The drawing of Michelangelo and the color of Titian'. However, he was very different in spirit from either of his avowed models, more emotive, using vivid exaggerations of light and movement. His drawings are brilliant, rapid notations, bristling with energy, and his color is more somber and mystical than Titian's.

Author : Anna Laura Lepschy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015034700040

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Tintoretto Observed by Anna Laura Lepschy Pdf

Author : Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Italy
ISBN : OXFORD:590089677

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Black's Guide to Italy by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) Pdf

Author : Miguel Falomir Faus
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822036458487

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Jacopo Tintoretto by Miguel Falomir Faus Pdf

Table of contents: I. Tintoretto and the Venetian Culture and Religious Environment Paul Hills, Tintoretto and Venetian Gothic - Augusto Gentili, Tintoretto in contesto tra politica e religion - Benjamin Paul, Archaism and Pauline Spirituality in Jacopo Tintoretto's Crucifixion for SS. Cosma e Damiano - Tom Nichols, False Gods: Tintoretto's Mythologies as Anti-poesie - Bernard Aikema, La casta Susanna II. Tintoretto and the Art of his Time Philip Cottrell, Painters in Practice: Tintoretto, Bassano and the Studio of Bonifacio de' Pitati - Roland Krischel, Jacopo Tintoretto and Giulio Romano - Miguel Falomir, Tintoretto y Tiziano - David Rosand, Tintoretto and Veronese: Style, Personality, Class - Jose Alvarez Lopera, Sobre Tintoretto y el Greco - Stefania Mason, Domenico Tintoretto e l'eredita della bottega III. Connoisseurship Robert Echols and Frederick Ilchman, Toward a New Tintoretto Catalogue, with a Checklist of Revised Attributions and a New Chronology IV. Technique and Conservation Erasmus Weddigen, The Works of Tintoretto: Sewn, Designed, Patched and Cut. The Uncertainty of Canvas Measurements - Ana Gonzalez Mozo, El concepto de dibujo en Jacopo Tintoretto: analisis de los recursos tecnicos utilizados en algunos cuadros del Museo Nacional del Prado - Robert Wald, Tintoretto's Vienna Susannah and the Elders. History, Technique and Restoration V. Theory and Collecting Maria H. Loh, Huomini della nostra eta. Tintoretto's Preposterous Modernity - Almuneda Perez de Tuleda, Coleccionismo de Tintoretto en Espana en torno a 1600 - Linda Borean, Jacopo Tintoretto nelle collezioni veneziane del Sei e Settecento - Leticia de Frutos, Tintoretto en las colecciones del marques del Carpio y del Almirante de Castilla.

Author : Tintoretto,Hans Tietze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003774697

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Tintoretto: the Paintings and Drawings by Tintoretto,Hans Tietze Pdf

"Tintoretto is the greatest European painter of the period of the Counter-Reformation, of the generation of artists between Michalangelo and El Greco. He has been called the "Master of daemonic art", the artist "more obsessed than any other with the problems of this time", "the dominant figure in the transition from the High Renaissance to the Baroque".--Page 2 of cover.

Author : Carl Justi
Publisher : London, H. Grevel & Company
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Artists
ISBN : HARVARD:FL192X

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Diego Velazquez and His Times by Carl Justi Pdf