University Park, PA: Penn State University Press. Qto., xvi, 215 pages, illustrated. A Fine copy in dust jacket. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Date: 1995. 1995. Penn State University Press ISBN 0271013397 9780271013398 [GB]

ISBN10: 0271013397, ISBN13: 9780271013398, [publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press, USA] Hardcover First Edition 22 x 29cm 215pp includes over 60 black and white reproductions together with essays including: 'Aretino as the Poet of Titian's Portraits'. Near fine in near fine dustjacket
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]

Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, Date: 1995. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by Titian, . Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Large format. Maroon cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and photos. Page edge browning/foxing. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few nicks; faded to spine. 1995. Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press ISBN 0271013397 9780271013398 [GB]

University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, Date: 1995. Hardcover. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges & usual markings etc. pgs clean & bright. dustjacket taped to cover edges; ID label to lower spine; plastic scuffed). burgundy boards. book xvi, 215 pgs w/ bw illustrations. red illustrated dustjacket w/ protective plastic. From a college library. Due-date slip has no removal stamps. "Among sixteenth-century Renaissance painters, Titian made his reputation, and much of his living, by portraiture. Titian's portraits were promoted by his friend, Pietro Aretino, an eminent poet and critic, who addressed his letters and sonnets to the same personages Titian portrayed. In many of these letters (which often included sonnets), Aretino described both an individual patron and Titian's portrait of that patron, thus stimulating the reciprocal relation between a verbal and pictorial portrait. By investigating this unprecedented historical phenomenon, Luba Freedman elucidates the meaning conveyed by the portrait as an artistic form in Renaissance Italy. Fusing iconographical analysis of the most famous Titian portraits with rhetorical analysis of Aretino's literary legacy as compared to contemporary reactions, Freedman demonstrates that it is due to Titian's many portraits and to Aretino's repeated simultaneous writings about them that the portrait ceased being primarily a social-historical document, preserving the sitter's likeness for posterity. It ...

ISBN10: 0271013397, ISBN13: 9780271013398, [publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania] Hardcover burgundy boards. book xvi, 215 pgs w/ bw illustrations. red illustrated dustjacket w/ protective plastic. From a college library. Due-date slip has no removal stamps. "Among sixteenth-century Renaissance painters, Titian made his reputation, and much of his living, by portraiture. Titian's portraits were promoted by his friend, Pietro Aretino, an eminent poet and critic, who addressed his letters and sonnets to the same personages Titian portrayed. In many of these letters (which often included sonnets), Aretino described both an individual patron and Titian's portrait of that patron, thus stimulating the reciprocal relation between a verbal and pictorial portrait. By investigating this unprecedented historical phenomenon, Luba Freedman elucidates the meaning conveyed by the portrait as an artistic form in Renaissance Italy. Fusing iconographical analysis of the most famous Titian portraits with rhetorical analysis of Aretino's literary legacy as compared to contemporary reactions, Freedman demonstrates that it is due to Titian's many portraits and to Aretino's repeated simultaneous writings about them that the portrait ceased being primarily a social-historical document, preserving the sitter's likeness for posterity. It gradually became, as it is today, a work of art, the artist's invention, ...
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University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, Date: 1995. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Dearest Janet / with admiration / Luba / January 1996." Illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions of Titian's paintings. A critical look at Titian's portraits through the writings of his friend, the poet Pietro Aretino. Near Fine, with light rubbing the extremities, in a lightly toned and rubbed, Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. The Pennsylvania State University Press ISBN 0271013397 US

ISBN10: 0271013397, ISBN13: 9780271013398, [publisher: Penn State University Press] Hardcover
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