Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity
by Tom Nichols
from Reaktion Books
The great School and the Church of St Rocco in Venice
Tintoretto
from Paul Holberton publishing
Jacopo Tintoretto was recognized in his own lifetime as an extraordinarily prolific and bold painter, and his status as one of the great Renaissance painters is unchallenged. With Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto shared a new pictorial language characterized by bravura brushwork, but he went further by creating a style that synthesized Tuscan and Venetian techniques, combining Titian's very loose brushwork and Michelangelo's draftsmanship. Tintoretto perfected an extraordinarily efficient production system that enabled him to generate an impressive volume of paintings. The present book is based on a very thorough examination of fifty paintings and twenty drawings that enable readers to appreciate the originality and true artistic personality of one of the most outstanding painters in the history of art. Beautifully produced, it is a landmark publiciaton on Tintoretto, attempting to explain how and why he painted in the way he did—both unsettling and fascinating his contemporaries. It investigates particularly his "model theatres."
Palazzo Pitti - Pitti Palace - Self Guided Walking Tour - Florence (Great Discoveries "Personal Audio Guides) - Formatted for MP3 Players)
by Bill Browne
from WhiteHot Productions
Great Discoveries Audio Tour of the Pitti Palace will provide you with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit the grandest of all the Italian Renaissance palaces. It may not bear the Medici name, but members of Florences first family were owners of this monolithic palace for many centuries. The palace remained the seat of the Medici court and the families successors, the Lorraines, the Bourbans, the Bounaparts and the Savoys, for some three centuries until 1859 when the Grand Duchy of Florence was annexed to the unified Kingdom of Italy. Today its countless rambling rooms house several museums, the most important of which is the Palatine Gallery, whose beautiful salons are filled from floor to ceiling with paintings from the Medici private collection. It is one of the largest and most important museums in the world containing works of Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Lippi, Tintoretto, Peter Paul Rubins, and others. Our carefully researched tour identifies and locates the most relevant art to ensure that you do not miss important works and that you clearly understand each items artistic and historic significance. Professional narrators, accompanied by historically appropriate background music, delight, inform and amuse as they present the palaces history, its great works of art, and the lives of the people, while guiding the listener through the Palatine Galleries and Royal Apartments. Includes an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your player. This 3 hour and 40 minute, 42 track, audio tour is in MP3 format, on 1 CD, ready to load to any MP3 player library, or ready for play on any CD player offering MP3 capability. (Not for use on CD players that only play standard CD formatted discs.)
Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto
by David Rosand
from Cambridge University Press
Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice, here published in a revised and updated edition, explores the visual tradition of one of the most important centres of the Italian Renaissance through a study of three masters - Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto. These painters dominated and shaped the traditions of Venetian painting in the High and Late Renaissance. Establishing the conditions of painting in Renaissance Venice, including the social, economic and political situation of arts and artists and the aesthetic values that distinguish Venetian painting from that of Central Italy, David Rosand also explores the formal principles and technical procedures that determined the uniqueness of painting in Venice, above all the development of oil painting on canvas. He also analyses individual images, altarpieces and mural paintings within the several contexts of conventions and institutions - artistic, social, historical - of Renaissance Venice.
This classic title, first published in 1982 by Yale University Press, out of print since 1987, is now published in a revised and updated edition. David Rosand explores the visual tradition of one of the most important centres of the Italian Renaissance through a study of three masters - Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto. These painters dominated and shaped the traditions of Venetian painting in the High and Late Renaissance.
Jacopo Tintoretto and the Scuola Grande of San Rocco
Many lovely reproductions of the decorative paintings of Jacopo Tintoretto in The Scuola Grande Of San Rocco.
Painting in Cinquecento Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto
Tintoretto Y Los Escritores/ Tintoretto and the Writers
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