Titian and the altarpiece in renaissance Venice
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521640954
- ISBN10 0521640954
- Type Book
- Pages 260
- Published 2000
- Bookbinding Cloth
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Arte Moderna E ContemporaneaTitian and the altarpiece in renaissance Venice
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
This study discusses the development of the altarpiece in sixteenth-century Venice. Focusing closely on Titian's St. Peter Martyr Altarpiece, his most famous work but destroyed in 1867, Patricia Meilman considers how this painting irrevocably changed the course of altar decoration. In order to place it in context, she outlines the types of altarpieces that preceded it and explores its patronage and innovations. Demonstrating the legacy of this altarpiece to a younger generation of painters, which continued well into the seventeenth century, she also examines the social, religious, and historical events of the decades just before the Tridentine reforms and their impact on devotional imagery and practices.