Research Catalog

Title

Titian's touch : art, magic and philosophy / Maria H. Loh.

Author

Loh, Maria H., 1971-

Publication

• London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, music; 23 cm.

Summary

"At the end of his long, prolific life, Titian was rumored to paint directly on the canvas with his bare hands. He would slide his fingers across bright ridges of oil paint, loosening the colors, blending, blurring, and then bringing them together again. With nothing more than the stroke of a thumb or the flick of a nail, Titian's touch brought the world to life. The clinking of glasses, the clanging of swords, and the cry of a woman's grief. The sensation of hair brushing up against naked flesh, the sudden blush of unplanned desire, and the dry taste of fear in a lost, shadowy place. Titian's art, Maria H. Loh argues in this exquisitely illustrated book, was and is a synesthetic experience. To see is at once to hear, to smell, to taste, and to touch. But while Titian was fully attached to the world around him, he also held the universe in his hands. Like a magician, he could conjure appearances out of thin air. Like a philosopher, his exploration into the very nature of things channelled and challenged the controversial ideas of his day. But as a painter, he created the world anew. Dogs, babies, rubies, and pearls. Falcons, flowers, gloves, and stone. Shepherds, mothers, gods, and men. Paint, canvas, blood, sweat, and tears. In a series of close visual investigations, Loh guides us through the lush, vibrant world of Titian's touch." --

Series Statement

Renaissance lives series

Uniform Title

Renaissance lives

Subjects

• Painters
• Titian, approximately 1488-1576
• Titian, approximately 1488-1576 > Criticism and interpretation
• Biographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Biography
• Italy
• Painters > Italy > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277) and index.

Contents

Touch me! Touch me not! -- Possessing nature -- Babies and fur -- Lightness and weight -- The sense of things -- Blood, sweat and tears -- Coda: Gold dust.

ISBN

• 9781789140828
• 178914082X

OCLC

• on1041763524
• 1041763524
• SCSB-9516800

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library