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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Paris - Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese – rivalry emerges Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Dolomites, came under the Venetian spell through his apprenticeship with the Bellini clan and Giorgione. He swiftly rose to fame in Venice from 1520, then throughout Italy and Europe. Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) was born in Venice around 1518. Thirty years stood between him and Titian,...
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Entartete Musik (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The Prado is one of the greatest art galleries on the planet. The traveller wanders through its long spacious hallways meeting Goya, Velazquez, Murillo, Titian, Tintoretto and Flemish gems one after the other. It is a mesmerising collection. Moving from Goya's 'El dos de mayo' and 'El tres de mayo' - his two revolutionary epics - we went in search of his earlier work, but stumbled through the
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
An exhbition at the Louvre looks at Titian's works and those of Tintoretto and Veronese, who tried but failed to surpass him.
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
BUDAPEST.- The most comprehensive exhibition to date dedicated to the Italian Renaissance will run in the Museum of Fine Arts from 28 October. The large-scale exhibition entitled Botticelli to Titian. Masterpieces of Two Centuries of Italian Painting will display paintings on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts from over fifty museums, including the Uffizi in Florence, the Louvre in Paris, the national...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Welcome to the "hottest" online art gallery in the world. The collection, kept in a glass and concrete building beside the Rhône in Lyons has more exhibits than the Louvre. It has been forbidden to the public for years, but has now has thrown itself open online to anyone who passes a simple security check. Rembrandt, Vermeer, Caravaggio, Picasso, Cézanne and Manet are all here....
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
PARIS.- A major event at the Louvre : powerful canvases by the greatest Venetian painters of the sixteenth century are presented side by side in Napoleon Hall in an exhibition allowing visitors to observe the play of inspiration and admiration between these geniuses as well as the competitive nature of their artistic dialogue. Including eighty-five canvases, most of which have been loaned for the...
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Ionarts (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
Veronese, Perseus and Andromeda, c. 1580,Musée des Beaux-Arts de RennesIf you are planning a trip to Paris this fall, you should not miss the big exhibit that opened at the Louvre today, Titien, Tintoret, Véronèse - Rivalités à Venise, open to the public through January 4. Éric Biétry-Rivierre published an article about the show (Titien, Tintoret, Véronèse,...
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Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
One of the pleasures of traveling to look at art is the opportunity to see works of art that don't make it into the textbooks, the opportunity to build your own visual memory and to see connections that artists make to each other through their work. The current installation of Old Masters at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts features two big, salon-style-on-Ando installations that encourage a viewer...
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reeling and writhing (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
Just In. A simply smashing post on early writing from Penni Russon. My other top selection for the week is this stupendous post about Venice and Tintoretto, from Fiona's exceptional Strange Fruit blog on painting, photography and writing. It is...
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Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Titian�s 'Rape of Europa' is part of the Isabella Stewart Gardner�s permanent collection. At the MFA Boston, view the temporary exhibition of Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese.
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Enchanted by Josephine (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
With all this talk about courtesans, book reviews and all- I thought it would be interesting to post about a very famous Venetian one named Veronica Franco. Born in 1546, this famous Venetian courtesan and poet, learned the trade from her mother Paola Fracassa, once a courtesan herself. Veronica had three brothers and it is from their tutoring that she too was inspired to become an intellectual, well...
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Spewing Truth in the face of Lies (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
Our friends Nick and Beth treated us to the MFA in Boston today. Ok, let me get this out I’m not a major art lover because much of the European art is religious in nature. I could care less about St. Jerome in the Wilderness. But the MFA has an exhibit on Titian, Tintoretto and [...]
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 27/07/2009
Itry to stay away from the New York Review of Books. It is a trap for aimless readers like me. I may enjoy a piece on the last Khan of Mongolia. But that makes me want to sample a letter about derivatives or a review of what Titian thought of Tintoretto. Pretty soon it's bedtime and I have forgotten...
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maykr (Free subscription) | 21/07/2009
This morning I was listening to a podcast episode of Fresh Air which aired last July 8, 2009. This episode ended with a review of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 's exhibit "Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice". Lloyd Schwartz, classical music editor for The Boston Pheonix, presented an interesting and well described review, but I almost couldn't absorb it because...
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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 19/07/2009
Image from providencepinup.com Sand In Your Pants Nobody likes sand in the pants, but sometimes it is a side effect of beach trips. You can keep your pants on today while talented folks finish up their impressive sand castles at the New England Sand Sculpting Festival . If today being the last day of the festival (winners were announced last night, so you'll see the best of the best) isn't enough...
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