Volume 15, Number 1 · July 2, 1970
Explaining Titian's Egg Seller
By Francis Haskell
Problems in Titian, Mostly Iconographic
by Erwin Panofsky
New York University, 366, 199 illustrations pp., $12.50
Tiziano
by Rodolfo Pallucchini
Sansoni, 2 vol., 410, 64 color plates (vol. 1), 677 illustrations (vol. 2) pp., 50,000 lire
Titian—The Religious Paintings
by Harold E. Wethey
Phaidon, 390, 242 plates pp., $35.00
Giorgione
by Terisio Pignatti
Alfieri, 370, 274 illustrations pp., $35.00
'Venice in the sixteenth century was not less celebrated for refined culture than Rome or Florence. In Venice—as in Tuscany—painting came to perfection after the heroic period; and the arts have been truly described as the gilded bark which covered the cankered trunk of a luxuriant tree.' The Life and Times of Titian with some account of his family by J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle was first published in 1877 and it remains one of the few nineteenth-century monographs on a Renaissance painter which is still fundamental to the study of its subject. For all its great value it is understandable that no one has had much to say in favor of Crowe and Cavalcaselle as literary artists, yet that first sentence must surely induce some nostalgia in anyone who sets out on an art historical biography today.
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