Titian: His Life and the Golden Age of Venice. Sheila Hale

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      Titian

      His Life and the Golden Age of Venice

      SHEILA HALE

       Dedication

      In memory of John

       Epigraph

      Titian was the sun amid small stars not only among the Italians but all the painters of the world.

      GIOVANNI PAOLO LOMAZZO,

      IDEA DEL TEMPIO DELLA PITTURA, 1590

      A work of art is an act of cooperation, often of reluctant cooperation like an awkward marriage, between the author and the kind of society he lives in. When we know something of the character of this aggravating partner, that which was once stiff and monumental becomes fluid and alive.

      V. S. PRITCHETT, IN MY GOOD BOOKS, 1942

      CONTENTS

       Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Introduction

A Note on Money

List of Illustrations

      Titian’s Family Tree

      Maps

PART I: 1488/90–1518

ONE - Mountains

TWO - The Most Triumphant City

THREE - The Painter’s Venice

FOUR - Myths of Venice

FIVE - The Fondaco, Giorgione and the Modern Manner

SIX - Miracles and Disasters

SEVEN - ‘Some Little Bit of Fame’

EIGHT - ‘His Industrious Brush’: Pentimenti and Portraits

NINE - Sacred and Profane

PART II: 1518–1530

ONE - Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara

TWO - Bacchus and Ariadne

       THREE - A New Doge, a River of Wine and Marriage

       FOUR - The Fall of a World

       FIVE - The Triumvirate of Taste

       SIX - Caesar in Italy

       SEVEN - The Most Beautiful Thing in Italy

       PART III: 1530–1542

       ONE - The Portrait of Cornelia

       TWO - The House in Biri Grande

       THREE - The Most Powerful Ruler in the World

       FOUR - The Venus of Urbino

       FIVE - The Roman Emperors

       SIX - The Writers’ Venice

       SEVEN - An Old Battle and a New War

       EIGHT - Titian in his Fifties

       PART IV: 1543–1562

       ONE - Aretino Plays Pontius Pilate

       TWO - The Last Great Pope of the Renaissance

       THREE - A Miracle of Nature

       FOUR - Rome

       FIVE - A Matter of Religion

       SIX - Augsburg

       SEVEN - The Prince and the Painter

       EIGHT - Venus and Adonis

       NINE - The Passing of the Leviathans

       TEN - The Diana Poems

       ELEVEN - The Rape of Europa

       PART V: 1562–1576

       ONE - A Factory of Images

       TWO - The Spider King

       THREE - The Biographer, the Art Dealer and the