Titian & tragic painting : Aristotle's poetics and the rise of the modern artist

Publication Data

• Title Titian & tragic painting : Aristotle's poetics and the rise of the modern artist
• Alternative Title Titian and tragic painting
• Author Thomas Puttfarken
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location New Haven, Conn.
• Language English

Contents

Introduction
On the status of painting in the Renaissance
Painting, poetry and the liberal arts
Imitation, moral purpose and learning
Tragedy
Titian and tragedy
The four great sinners
Michelangelo and Titian: terribilità and tragic pathos
Titian's mythological paintings: problems of interpretation
Titian's poesie for Philip II as painted tragedies
The final tragedies and Titian's 'late style'
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Topics

• Aristotle :: Influence
• Titian, approximately 1488-1576 :: Criticism and interpretation
• Painters :: Italy :: Social conditions :: History :: 16th century
• Painting, Renaissance :: Italy
• Tragic, The, in art
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Titian & tragic painting : Aristotle's poetics and the rise of the modern artist by Thomas Puttfarken. ISBN 0300110006. Published by Yale University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.