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The muddied mirror : materiality and figuration in Titian's later paintings
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The muddied mirror : materiality and figuration in Titian's later paintings

Author: Jodi Cranston; Titian
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Extends formalism to facture and situates the materiality of Titian's later works within the late sixteenth-century interest in embodiment and violence rather than within the Renaissance ideals of classicizing beauty and perfection"--Provided by publisher.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Cranston, Jodi, 1969-
Muddied mirror.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010
(OCoLC)690997241
Named Person: Titian
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jodi Cranston; Titian
ISBN: 9780271035291 0271035293
OCLC Number: 302414578
Description: xi, 147 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Responsibility: Jodi Cranston.

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Titan's paintings with their roughly worked and 'open' surfaces, unexpected glazes, and thick impasto brushstrokes, made the fact of the paint increasingly visible. This title argues that this  Read more...

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"Cranston has enormous insight into not only the artist's brush and its application onto the surface - perhaps no other Renaissance artist was as tactile as Titian - but also the underlying meaning of Read more...

 
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