Titian: His Life - Rilegato

Hale, Sheila

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ISBN 10: 006059876X ISBN 13: 9780060598761

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2012

Riassunto

A full-length biography of a leading painter of the Italian High Renaissance takes into account recent historical art research and scholarship and examines all contemporary accounts of Titian's life and work, attempting to explain the evolution of his complex methods. 20,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Sheila Hale’s TITIAN takes on the heroic task of reconstructing this largely undocumented life. . . . Meticulous and fluid. . . . Hale’s biography captures the energy and colors of everyday Venetian life as brilliantly as a Canaletto painting.” (New York Times Book Review)

“[A] magnificent account of the incomparable Venetian artist Titian and the world he lived in...Hale writes an elegant, even worldly prose...delicious as well as authoritative...For me, it’s the biography of the year.” (Michael Dirda, Washington Post)

“A magnificent new biography...The elegance and energy of her narrative, together with a born biographer’s eye for detail, make...[this] eminently readable and profoundly authentic...” (Jonathan Keates, Literary Review)

“Impressive...entertaining...a feat of research...crammed with new or expanded or rethought information about this stubbornly mysterious giant” (Waldemar Januszczak, Sunday Times (London))

“It all makes for compelling reading...enriched by vivid anecdotes and gossipy snippets” (Fisun Güner, Independent)

“Titian stands out among his peers as Shakespeare does among writers, and Sheila Hale’s authoritative and readable book is more than worthy of her subject.” (The Economist)

“This definitive biography of the great Renaissance painter in over a century is a landmark achievement.” (Publishers Weekly, "Top 10 in Art and Architecture")

“An excellent biography...Hale’s thorough research, judicious examination of evidence, lucid narrative style, and perceptive and illuminating interpretations of the major works are worthy of her great subject.” (Booklist (starred review))

“In this monumental book, Hale sets forth what may become the definitive biography of Tiziano Vecellio (c.1480-1576), better known as Titian. . . . This impressive, ambitious, scholarly, interdisciplinary . . . book straddles academic disciplines, including art history, history, and literature. Strongly recommended.” (Library Journal (starred review))

“Hale’s approach is to try to understand the times in which he lived, and she succeeds brilliantly in capturing the pulse of 16th-century Venice, where the artist spent his working life. . . . Highly readable.” (Wall Street Journal)

L'autore:

Sheila Hale has known and often lived in Venice since 1965, when she began as a research assistant to the late John Hale, with whom she worked on Renaissance Venice and The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. Her guidebook to Venice, first published in 1984, was praised by David Lodge as "the best guidebook I have ever used" and by Eric Newby as "deserving a Nobel Prize." She has written other guidebooks, an architectural history of Verona, and articles for a number of papers, including the New York Times, the London Observer, and the Times Literary Supplement. Her book The Man Who Lost His Language was described by Brenda Maddox as "enlarging the language of love" and by Michael Frayn as "a triumph." Sheila Hale is a trustee of Venice in Peril and lives in Twickenham, England.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 006059876X
• ISBN 13: 9780060598761
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 832