Ian G. Kennedy

A leading artist in the High Renaissance, Titian (Tiziano Vecelli, 1488-1576) was the Venetian school's greatest painter and is one of the best-loved Italian artists of all time. Titian was highly regarded during his lifetime, and his renown has not diminished in the intervening centuries; so great was his ability to manipulate color, texture, and tone that he is still considered to be one of art history's greatest technical masters. The freedom exhibited in his pictorial compositions was unprecedented and greatly influential on later artists, notably Manet, who closely studied Titian's work at the Louvre. This book examines Titian's evolution, from his early years training under Giovanni Bellini to his later mature work, giving a wide perspective on the life's work of this legendary master painter.

Sumérjase en los oscuros tonos y las ricas texturas de Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1490-1576), conocido simplemente como Tiziano, la principal figura de la pintura veneciana del siglo XVI. Con su atrevido enfoque sobre la forma y sus asombrosos y opulentos colores, Tiziano recibio numerosos encargos de gran prestigio y dejo tras de si un increible repertorio de retratos, pinturas mitologicas, retablos y paisajes que conforman el legado mas importante del arte renacentista. Esta rigurosa introduccion repasa la carrera completa de Tiziano y su influencia como precursor de varias generaciones de artistas, desde Diego Velazquez hasta Van Dyck. Desde la voluptuosa sensualidad de la Venus de Urbino (c. 1538) hasta el dinamismo aereo de Baco y Ariadna (1520-1523), aqui se incluyen las principales obras, mostrando la experimentacion estilistica del artista a lo largo del tiempo y su habilidad constante y unica para trabajar distintos generos y aportar un nuevo nivel de aspecto emocional y espiritual caracteristico a sus temas.