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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nygren, Christopher J., 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
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.