Books explore Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Nov 20, 2009
The Sistine Chapel is part of the Vatican Museums, which gather hundreds of artworks from painters including Raphael, Titian and Caravaggio. More than 4 million people visit the Vatican Museums every year. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
British Museum Leonardo da Vinci ... Nov 10, 2009
The exhibition will feature work by the most important Italian Renaissance artists active between 1400 and 1510 including Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Angelico, Jacopo and Gentile Bellini, Botticelli, Carpaccio, Filippo Lippi, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Verrocchio and Titian. Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance drawings will be on show from 22nd April to 25th June 2010 in the Round Reading Room. (Suite101.com)
Public art boosted by tax scheme Nov 6, 2009
Titian's Triumph of Love has been given to Oxford's Ashmolean Museum. Works of art by Titian and David Hockney are among almost 20m worth of cultural objects accepted in lieu of tax this year, it has been revealed ... In a written ministerial statement, Culture Minister Margaret Hodge said Titian's The Triumph of Love had been allocated to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, while the Tate had received Study for Doll Boy, and The Berliner and the Bavarian by David Hockney. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
A Body of Work Oct 26, 2009
" Going back to ancient beauties - think Venus de Milo - the Greeks set a standard that's inspired artists for a couple of thousand years and counting. Fast forward to, say, 16th centu 00004000 ry Italy, and look at Titian or Raphael, or "The Three Graces: by the 17th century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. (You've heard the term "Ruben-esque."). (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Istanbul exhibit seeks to reveal city's soul Oct 23, 2009
Visitors look at a painting of Sultan Suleiman I the Magnificent, attributed to the school of the Italian painter Titian, 1530, at the exhibition from Byzantium to Istanbul at the Grand Palais in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. The exhibition, opened earlier this month by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Turkish President Abdullah Gul,is the centerpiece of the "Year of Turkey," a panoply of some 400 Turkish cultural events spread over nine months to allow the French and others to become... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
London's Tate Gallery Is Masters' Battleground Oct 22, 2009
They are not small names: Titian, Rembrandt and Poussin, among others, are all on display. Needless to say, the crowds are massive. (Newsmax)
‘Tomb 10A’ lets you look history right in the face Oct 18, 2009
Thanks to steadily rising insurance and transportation costs, loan-heavy shows like the MFA s recent Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice are getting more and more difficult to mount. As a result, museum directors will have to draw on their permanent collections for temporary exhibitions. (Boston Globe)
Hirst's Worst? Oct 15, 2009
What are they doing in the home of such masters as Rembrandt or Poussin, Titian or Fragonard. The answer is simple: they are by Damien Hirst. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Family ties? Oct 14, 2009
Page last updated at 16:48 GMT, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 17:48 UK. Adopted 'nobles' at war over vast fortune. (BBC News -- Europe)
* ART JOURNAL: Titian, rivals battle for market share in Louvre show Sep 23, 2009
ART JOURNAL: Titian, rivals battle for market share in Louvre show ... Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese X Rivalries in Venice, an exhibition at the Louvre, looks at the Venetian school of painting in the second half of the 16th century from the perspective of fierce competition for market share ... Michelangelo, after having seen Titians Danae, told Vasari, the art critic, that he admired the handling of color, yet added: What a pity that Venetian painters dont learn how to draw properly. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Art.view: Beguiling beauty Sep 16, 2009
After all, the Capodimonte is filled with masterpieces from the world famous Farnese Collection, some 800 paintings by such artists as Titian, Raphael, Masaccio and Mantegna ... Among the seven Farnese portraits by Titian on view (seven Titian portraits in one room ... In 1799, when Charles s son, Ferdinand IV King of Naples, fled advancing French troops, he took with him to Palermo some 20 works from the Farnese Collection its Titians and Antea. (The Economist)
* Interpol opens online database of stolen artworks Sep 8, 2009
Launched last month and open to interested individuals, as well as governments, museums, galleries and auction houses, the database features masterpieces by artists such as Caravaggio, Titian and Degas, as well as a host of other, lesser known paintings, sculptures, pieces of furniture and jewelry. Among the items featured is Rembrandts The Storm of the Sea of Galilee, taken along with other paintings from a US gallery in a 1990 heist considered the biggest in world history. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Read Indepth Article Aug 24, 2009
A major installation entitled The Class of Beauty shows various table vitrines, each dedicated to an iconic artist that Wittwer treasures: Friedrich, De Hooch, Kalf, Klee, Poussin, Ruisdael, Titian and Warhol. In a loose and associative manner, they assemble monochrome watercolours showing either a detail from a specific reference work or a major, virtuosic rendered topic of that artist. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Art.view: Art and intrigue Aug 23, 2009
There is also armour, majolica, medieval and Renaissance objets d art and scores of Old Master paintings including outstanding works by Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals and Titian. At the entrance to each room, a photograph displays what it looked like in the 19th century, when this was still a private home. (The Economist)
Blue ribbon for the curator, too Aug 16, 2009
Curator Frederick Ilchman looks back at the Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese exhibit - The Boston Globe ... Tonight the doors will close on galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts that have been home since March to 19 paintings by Titian, 18 by Tintoretto, and 17 by Veronese ... Nearly 30 couriers will arrive to take a total of 35 paintings from the blockbuster exhibition Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice to the Louvre in Paris, the show s second and final destination. (Boston Globe)
Catching the Cape in restless motion Aug 12, 2009
Others show menacing bald eagles - one with testicles carries a gun and flowers - and Heyman s version of Titian s painting Sacred and Profane Love. Ultimately, the structure will be large enough to walk into. (Boston Globe)
‘Dove/O’Keeffe’ exhibit shines at Clark Art Institute Jul 12, 2009
Like the Museum of Fine Arts exhibition about the rivalry between Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese in Venice, the works in Dove/O Keeffe are hung in discreet pairs or groups that largely disregard chronology to focus on common or contrasting themes and stylistic echoes. Interestingly, it s the first exhibition devoted to 20th-century art the Clark has ever mounted. (Boston Globe)
The Things We Do for Money May 29, 2009
The main character in de Botton's chapter on painting is a struggling, middle-aged artist who "found his teachers on museum walls" and spent three years determining "how best to render the movement of wheat." It is in losing himself at his easel in the English countryside that he transforms from the pub-going, penniless son of a postman into the "heir to Titian.". Compare that with accountants, the craftsmen of capitalism who toil in their tall, airless temples. (BusinessWeek)
Exhibits highlight two great colorists' different methods Apr 12, 2009
When Michelangelo went to visit Titian, the great Venetian painter who was in Rome working for Cardinal Farnese, Titian had just finished painting his lustrous nude "Dana?." ... Michelangelo and Titian were the two greatest artists alive ... Admitting that Titian's coloring "pleased him very much," he even noted Titian's "fine spirit and lively and entrancing style." But there was just no getting around it: The Venetian's drawing was off. (Boston Globe)
Renaissance Venice's Big Men on Canvas Apr 11, 2009
The complex dynamic of that decades-long game is charted with authority and lots of Cinquencento dazzle in "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice," an abundant show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ... Titian was the pivotal figure in all this ... The Virgin and Child with Saints, a panel painting from the Bellini workshop that was done in the years around 1505 when Titian worked there, is typical. (Time.com)
Art.view: Pen and ink Apr 5, 2009
A sleeping Venus, after Titian, bears a succinct resum; of Liotard s views on the Venetian master: Beautiful contrast, beautiful effect, admirable drawing. Printmakers were very common in the 18th century, so it is not clear why Liotard chose to do his own print-making, as he clearly found it difficult. (The Economist)
A tale of three paintings Mar 30, 2009
The Titian (left), the Tintoretto, and the Veronese ... IN ARTNEWS, FREDERICK Ilchman, a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, walks readers through one example of how the rivalry among the three subjects of the MFA s current exhibition, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, played itself out ... For Titian, Ilchman writes, painting in the early 1530s, the scene is about proportion and equilibrium, artistically and theologically. (Boston Globe)
Venetian finds Mar 16, 2009
This colorful world is yours for the soaking at the Museum of Fine Arts exhibit "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice." The 56 works on loan from museums and Venetian churches are explored in seven sections, including "The Transformation of Venetian Painting Around 1500," "The Three Protagonists," "Sacred Themes," "Mythology and the Female Nude," and "Portraiture." Today from 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m. (through Aug. 16). Ticketed admission at half-hour intervals is $25, $23 students... (Boston Globe)
Critic's picks - visual arts Mar 15, 2009
TITIAN, TINTORETTO, VERONESE: RIVALS IN RENAISSANCE VENICE. A stunning show matching up masterpieces by Titian with wonderful works by the two leading artists of the next generation, Tintoretto and Veronese. (Boston Globe)
Renaissance Art Exhibitions 2009 Mar 15, 2009
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice ... The show features works by Raphael (1483-1520), Michelangelo Buonarroti, Titian (ca. (Suite101.com)
Cant afford a European tour? Try NYC instead Mar 12, 2009
They include works by Renaissance artists like Titian and Botticelli, Old Masters like Rembrandt and Goya, and 19th-century paintings by Van Gogh and Renoir. The Met also has five Vermeers, the world's largest single collection of the Dutch artist's work. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Ready to show their stuff Mar 9, 2009
The shindig, to celebrate the opening of the MFA's new exhibit "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese," attracted more than 1,300 people, including a certain two-time Oscar nominated actor who calls Cambridge home ... "I've seen him act on several occasions, but he's aged and has a gray beard. . . . He looks more like a Titian portrait all the time.". (Boston Globe)
Sonja Kohn Wooed Madoff Billions With Medici `Fantasy,' Rothschild Lineage Feb 19, 2009
At the Dec. 1 gala previewing The Myth of Antiquity exhibition featuring works by Titian and Correggio, it spent 3,000 euros for a table with the theme The Triumph of Bacchus, Seipel said. Kohn also has pursued other business efforts. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Merger of arts bodies will 'enliven Scottish culture' says Mike ... Feb 19, 2009
6 million to the successful campaign to save the Titian masterpiece Diana and Actaeon, would make no contribution to the purchase of its companion piece, Diana and Callisto. The SNP vision for Creative Scotland was criticised as vague by some in the minister's audience, and it has been attacked by lobbyists in the screen industries for its failure to maintain an independent Scottish film office. (Times Online)
The Victorians by Jeremy Paxman Feb 17, 2009
Of course, the Victorian aristocracy liked to use art as a symbol of their wealth and prosperity, which is why the well-off preferred Titian, but for the arrivistes there was plenty of tat on offer. Pictures of imperial subjugation always went down a treat with the gentry, while the more metropolitan audience tended to prefer art of a more socially questioning nature. (guardian.co.uk)
War Of A Titian Feb 12, 2009
The Conservative leader tried to taunt Gordon Brown at Prime Minister's Questions, accusing him of getting the age of Renaissance artist Titian wrong ... This time it's Titians of lies ... " The gaffe was discovered because the computer registration number which was recorded alongside the change made on Wikipedia was traced back to Conservative Central Office within minutes. The year the painter died was altered to back up Cameron's claim at 12.34pm - four minutes after Prime Minister's... (Glasgow Daily Record)
Tories admit to Wiki-alteration Feb 12, 2009
David Cameron's Titian age jibe. The Tories have admitted a member of staff altered a Wikipedia entry on the artist Titian after a row between Gordon Brown and David Cameron ... During exchanges at prime minister's questions, the Tory leader mocked Mr Brown for talking of Titian at 90, when he said in fact he had died age 86. (BBC News -- Technology)
New York City Feb 8, 2009
The exhibit includes paintings by Titian and Botticelli, erotic drawings and prints, and many other rare and significant works, including one of the earliest known diamond wedding rings. Guests also receive a complimentary bottle of Champagne, free breakfast and in-room coffee. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
British galleries save key Titian, one to go Feb 8, 2009
EDINBURGH The National Galleries of Scotland and London's National Gallery said on Monday they had raised the 50-million ($88-million) needed to save a key work by Renaissance master Titian before it was put up for sale ... The painting Diana and Actaeon by Italian Renaissance master Titian, owned by the Duke of Sutherland ... The National Gallery in London has called the two Titians the greatest Renaissance pictures left in private hands. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
