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 107-032 Venetian Renaissance Painting: Giorgione, Titian and their Contemporaries

Note

Formerly available as 111-231/331. Students who have completed 111-231/331 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. A knowledge of Italian language and history is helpful, though not essential.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Professor Jaynie Anderson

Prerequisites

Usually 12.5 points of first year Art History

see Prerequisites

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

This subject aims to introduce students to the art of sixteenth-century Venice, principally the works of the painters Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and Lorenzo Lotto. Special subjects to be studied will include devotional painting, narrative painting in confraternities, portraiture and erotic profane painting. Methods and approaches studied will include connoisseurship, iconography, the study of patronage, the history of conservation, the study of materials and techniques, especially Venetian pigments and the impact of feminist studies on the study of Renaissance painting. The primary Renaissance sources for the subject, both visual and written will be analysed in critical detail, and related to comparative modern critical frameworks. The texts analysed will include Pietro Aretino's 'Letters' and the 'Lives of the Venetian Artists' written by Carlo Ridolfi and Georgio Vasari. Seminar subjects will include Alfonso D'Este's studiolo at Ferrara, Lorenzo Lotto's portraiture, Titian's Venus of Urbino and the representation of women in Venetian art.

Assessment

Written work which may comprise classpaper and essay totalling 4000 words. An examination may be substituted for part of the assessment.

Prescribed Texts
  • J Anderson, Giorgione, the Painter of 'Poetic Brevity'. Flammarion 1997.
  • P Humfrey, Painting in Renaissance Venice. 1995.
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