by Sheila Hale
Venier, Francesco (Doge 1554–56), 536–7, 777n7
Venier, Lorenzo, 374, 739n22, 761n3
Venier, Sebastiano, Commander of the Venetian fleet, then Doge 1557–78, 664–5, 783n11
Verdi, Giuseppe, 468, 682, 775n1
Verdizotti, Giovanni Maria, 557, 574, 575, 642–3, 676, 780n3
Vermeyen, Jan Cornelisz, 763n6
Veronese, 30, 53, 208, 314, 454, 505, 506, 507, 559, 579, 593, 599–600, 601, 608, 610, 639, 649, 690–1, 693, 694, 732, 738n7, 766n12; Allegory of Music, 579; Choice Between Virtue and Vice, 782n7; Doge Sebastiano Venier Offering Thanks to Christ for the Victory of Lepanto, 668; Feast in the House of Levi, 782n6; Holy Family with Sts John the Baptist, Anthony Abbot and Catherine, 505; Marriage at Cana, 53, 605; Portrait of Agostino Barbarigo, 783n11; Portrait of Daniele Barbaro, 455–5; Venice Enthroned with Justice and Peace, 668; Wisdom and Strength, 782n7
Vesalius, Andreas, 445, 770n9
Virgil, 120, 137, 354, 421, 494, 608
Vittoria, Alessandro, 247, 553
Vivarini, Alvise, 122, 159
Wars of Italy (1494–1559), 30, 40, 80, 85, 202, 225, 281, 591
Watts, G. F., 277
Whistler, James, 140
Wilde, Johannes, 396, 684, 760n13, 766n10, 780n6
Willaert, Adrian, 29, 181, 210, 216, 228, 613, 781n13
Wittenberg (see also Martin Luther), xiii, 109, 208, 311, 524, 528; Capitulation of (1547), see also Germany, Schmalkaldic League, 485
Wollheim, Richard, 133, 137
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, 271
Yeats, W. B., 144, 186, 747n35
Zaffetta, Angela, 339, 343, 372, 761n5
Zanetti, Antonio, 91, 396
Zen, Nicolò, 585, 589
Zuccato family, 193, 198, 599, 744n3; Francesco, 212, 215, 552, 609–11, 679, 721, 739n1, 739n2, 753n9; Sebastiano, 44–5, 47, 54; Valerio, 552, 609–11, 618, 666, 721, 739n1, 739n2
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I could not have written a book of this scope without the advice and encouragement of many people. But my first debt of gratitude is to the Titian scholar Professor Charles Hope, a former Director of the Warburg Institute, who has generously shared with me the primary sources he has been discovering and analysing for more than forty years, some of them published here for the first time. Although I have not agreed with him about every point of interpretation I would not have undertaken a book about Titian without his invaluable co-operation. I am also immeasurably grateful to the Warburg Institute Library, a unique resource for scholars from all over the world, to its librarians Professor Jill Kraye and Dr François Quiviger, and to the scholars with whom I exchanged ideas in the Warburg common room, especially Beverly Brown, Susan Haskins, Helen Langdon and Alessandro Scafi.
The idea of writing a life of Titian was first suggested by Stuart Proffitt. In the end it has been published by HarperCollins where my editor Arabella Pike patiently waited while I exceeded my contractual deadline by six years, and made invaluable suggestions that have greatly improved and tightened the original manuscript. I have also been exceptionally fortunate in my knowledgeable copy editor Peter James, an admirer of Titian, who weeded out errors and verbiage.
Charles Hope, Anne Engel and Jonathan Keates read my manuscript in its embryonic stages, made suggestions, corrected errors, but above all gave me the support and encouragement without which I might have faltered. Charlotte Hale, Conservator of Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, shared her expertise about the techniques of scientific investigation of paintings.
Connie Harmon and Marina Gelmi were my enthusiastic companions on journeys to and from Venice and Titian’s homeland in Cadore. Professor Roy Foster, as well as giving me much support, alerted me to the importance of Titian for W. B. Yeats.
Finally, some of the most stimulating conversations I have had about Titian were with working painters, notably Bernard Cohen, Anthony Eyton, Annie Harris, Sir Christopher Pinsent and Jo Tilson.
Inserts
Tribute Money, panel, 75 x 56 cm
Gypsy Madonna, panel, 63.4 x 81.8 cm
Man with a Blue Sleeve, canvas, 81.2 x 66.3 cm
Miracle of the Speaking Babe, fresco, 340 x 355 cm
Flora, canvas, 79.7 x 63.5 cm
Pesaro Altarpiece, canvas, 478 x 266 cm
Three Ages of Man, canvas, 90 x 151.7 cm
Sacred and Profane Love, canvas, 118 x 279 cm
Assumption of the Virgin, panel, 690 x 360 cm
Noli me tangere, canvas, 110.5 x 91.9 cm
Federico Gonzaga, panel, 125 x 99 cm
Man with a Glove, canvas, 100 x 89 cm
Presentation of the Virgin, canvas, 335 x 775 cm
Ranuccio Farnese, canvas, 89.4 x 73.5 cm
Pope Paul III, canvas, 137 x 88.8 cm
Pietro Aretino, canvas, 96.7 x 76.6 cm
Charles V on Horseback, canvas, 332 x 279 cm
Prince Philip, canvas, 193 x 111 cm
Rape of Europa, canvas, 185 x 205 cm
Entombment, canvas, 137 x 175 cm
Diana and Actaeon, canvas, 184.5 x 202.2cm
Diana and Callisto, canvas, 187 x 204 cm
Danaë, canvas, 129 x 180 cm
Reclining Venus, Lutenist, canvas, 150 x 196.8cm
Wisdom, canvas, 177 x 177 cm
Jacopo Strada, canvas, 125 x 95 cm
St Sebastian, canvas, 210 x 115.5 cm
Death of Actaeon, canvas, 178.8 x 197.8cm
Flaying of Marsyas, canvas, 220 x 204 cm
Crowning with Thorns, canvas, 280 x 181 cm
St Jerome in Penitence, canvas, 217 x 175 cm
Pietà, canvas, 378 x 347 cm
Self-portrait, canvas, 86 x 65 cm
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sheila Hale has known and often lived in Venice since 1965, when she began work as research assistant to the late John Hale, with whom she worked on Renaissance Venice and The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. Her guidebook to Venice, first published in 1984, was praised by David Lodge as “the best guidebook I have ever used” and by Eric Newby as “deserving a Nobel Prize.” She has written other guidebooks, an architectural history of Verona, and articles for a number of papers, including the New York Times, the London Observer, and the Times Literary Supplement. Her book The Man Who Lost His Language was described by Brenda Maddox as “enlarging the language of love,” and by Michael Frayn as “a triumph.” Sheila Hale is a trustee of Venice in Peril and lives in Twickenham, England.
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Also by Sheila Hale
Florence and Tuscany (1983 and subsequent editions)
Venice (1984 and subsequent editions)
Verona (1991)
The Man Who Lost His Language (2002)
Copyright
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First published in Great Britain in 2012 by HarperPress, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
FIRST U.S. EDITION
Titian’s family tree © 2008 by Charles Hope
Maps by John Gilkes, redrawn from The Imperial Age of Venice, 1380–1580, by D. S. Chambers, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London.
Title page: Rape of Europa (detail), © Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston © The Bridgeman Art Library
Endpapers: Madonna and Child with Saint Francis and the Donor Luigi Gozzi with Saint Alvise (detail). Ancona, Pinacoteca Comunale. © 2012. Photo Scala, Florence
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