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...that looked east in artistic matters to the traditions of the Byzantine. By his 20s he was already a recognized local practitioner of the religious-icon style. His gifts and ambition eventually took him to Venice, where his art was transformed by the twisting energies and sensual palettes of Titian and Tintoretto, all of which he turned to his own purposes. In The Purification of the Temple, a scene that he produced in many versions over the years, the poses are borrowed from Michelangelo and Tintoretto, among other sources. And the temple is the familiar architectural space of Italian painting...
...popular he doesn't even need a name. The Basilica del Santo is the resting place of St. Anthony - known simply as il Santo - a humble 13th century Franciscan monk. The massive church, with its mixture of Christian and Islamic influences, brims with artwork by Donatello and Titian, and annually attracts 4 million visitors and pilgrims. Surprising gothic thrill: one of the relics on display is Anthony's calcified tongue and jaw. Just down the road lies the Prato della Valle, the so-called field with no grass that's now a vast piazza of fountains and statues. Think Place...
...back as the 13th century, Italian city-states guarded their cultural artifacts as carefully as they did their borders. Some 800 years later, in the unified nation that claims Michelangelo and Titian as part of its heritage, that legacy still has power. From masterpieces hanging in museums to precious works held in private collections - whose owners cannot so much as move a painting without official approval - almost all of Italy's treasures are jealously protected by the state. Culture, says Salvatore Settis, an Italian professor of art history and classical archaeology, "holds a historic memory that belongs to the citizens...
Violence, debauchery, popes, emperors, gods, martyrs, a cardinal's mistress - Titian's work encompassed them all. He had talent to burn and his sensuous paintings were a must-have for the élite of Renaissance Europe. Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) became Venice's official painter in 1516, and was top in Europe until his death in 1576 aged (he claimed) ninetysomething. "Titian," a banquet of his major works harvested from leading European and American galleries, can be savored at London's National Gallery from Feb. 19 through May 18, and - in slightly different form - at the Prado, Madrid, from June...
...them is the smallest, a tiny wooden carving--whittling, really--of the crucifixion torso, which manages to compress into its less than 1-ft.-high block the tragic pathos of his late, unfinished stone carvings, such as the Rondanini Pieta. (The catalog also compares the carving to late Titian, late Rembrandt and the late quartets of Beethoven, and not without reason...