Ebook: Titian
Author: Sir Claude Phillips
- Tags: Art General History Renaissance European Individual Artists Monographs
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Parkstone International
- Language: English
- epub
Not only does Sir Claude Phillips offer the reader a studied and insightful loook into the work of one of the world's most cherished painters, but he also invites us to discover the bustling world on the Venetian art circle in which Titian lived and worked. From his early years in the workshop of Giovanni Bellini, to his meeting with Michelangelo and his rivalry with Pordenone, the story of Titian's artistic development also tells the story of the most influential Italian Renaissance art.
About the Author
Writer, critic and art historian, Sir Claude Phillips was a Keeper of the Wallace Collection. Hestarted in life as a solicitor and this occupation took him all over the world. During his numerous travels, he visited museums and art collections building up his knowledge of art. He was appointed Keeper of the Wallace Collection and while working there, he wrote on Reynolds and Titian