Titian, the Della Rovere Dynasty, and His Portrait of Guidobaldo II and his Son - Couverture rigide

Eze, Anne-Marie; Hayes, Matthew; Kennedy, Ian-G; Verstegen, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1913645096 ISBN 13 : 9781913645090

Editeur : Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

Le portrait Klesch, par Titien, de Guidobaldo II avec son fils Francesco Maria représente le duc d’Urbino dans ses pleins pouvoirs de commandant suprême des troupes papales avec son héritier à ses côtés. Ce rare double portrait en pied vient seulement d’être attribué à Titien après avoir entrepris des analyses et une restauration minutieuses qui révèlent une belle peinture au style « non finito » avec de superbes touches d’empâtement totalement typiques au maître. Tout ceci est illustré et développé dans ce nouveau livre. Titian provided portraits for the greatest men and women of Europe, Charles V and Philip II of Spain primary among them. For years the Klesch portrait was dismissed as a workshop product – partly because poor condition hid its true quality, but also because it was not believed that Titian could have deigned to create one for Guidobaldo, whose father Guidobaldo della Rovere (1514–1574) and family had a long history of patronizing the artist. Recent research, however, has thrown Guidobaldo’s geopolitical significance into relief. He was supreme commander of Venice, the Papal States and then Spain. He sent thousands of soldiers to the major conflicts of his day, particularly the defense of Malta (1565) and the Battle of Lepanto (1571) and his engineers were sought throughout Europe for their ingenuity. In this volume full of new research, Ian Verstegen reveals that Guidobaldo was not peripheral but central to Italian politics and was regarded at several points in history as a key figure who could bring peace or who could influence major conflicts on the Italian peninsula, particularly the War of Siena, and then Pope Paul IV’s offensive war against Spain. Anne-Marie Eze gives the first comprehensive examination of the painting’s provenance, outlining the portrait’s vicissitudes and reception at different moments in its near 500-year history, reexamining received wisdom about its past ownership, and presenting new documentary evidence to expand on and fill gaps in our knowledge of its whereabouts. Finally, Matthew Hayes and Ian Kennedy reflect on the technique, date, recent conservation, and authorship of the painting, proving it to be a masterpiece that only the great Titian could have created.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anne-Marie Eze is director of scholarly and public programs and interim curator of the Philip Hofer Collection of Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard University's Houghton Library. Matthew Hayes is a paintings conservator in New York, where he directs the Pietro Edwards Society for Art Conservation. Ian Kennedy is an independent scholar living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Ian Verstegen is a theorist and historian of modern and early modern art at the University of Pennsylvania.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913645096
• ISBN 13: 9781913645090
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible