Titian's icons : tradition, charisma, and devotion in Renaissance Italy /
"A reexamination of the career of Titian, the only Renaissance artist credited by contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image. Argues that a major part of the artist's legacy is to be found in his charismatic entrance into the tradition of Christian icon painting"--
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Titian, charismatic painter
- Icons and agency : the San Rocco Christ carrying the cross
- Icons and exegesis in Ferrara : Christ with the coin and Judith/Salome
- Erasmian icons : visualizing the Philosophia Christi
- Icons and community : Rome and the network of Ecce homos
- Rupestrian icons : Ecce homo on slate, Mater Dolorosa on marble, and the matter of devotion
- Explicit icons : historicity between tradition and self
- The twilight of the icon? : Titian's Pietà in the Galleriie dell'Academia.