Volume 40, Number 11 · June 10, 1993
Tempest over Titian
By Charles Hope
Le Siècle de Titien: L'âge d'or de la peinture à Venise
an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, March 9–June 14, 1993
Le Siècle de Titien: L'âge d'or de la peinture à Venise
catalog of the exhibition by Michel Laclotte. others
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 748 pp., FF 390
Le Siècle de Titien is the fourth major show of sixteenth-century Venetian art in ten years, following The Genius of Venice in London in 1983–1984, Titian in Venice and Washington in 1990, and Jacopo Bassano in Bassano del Grappa and Fort Worth last year, to name only the most ambitious. Venetian painting is beautiful and historically important, but this alone does not account for these four spectacular exhibitions. Equally important is the convenient fact that Venetian artists of this period produced more works on canvas than their predecessors or contemporaries elsewhere in Italy. In most instances curators are rightly unwilling to allow panels to travel, but they have fewer reservations about canvases. Thus this is the only type of Italian Renaissance painting that can be exhibited in quantity.
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