HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: History of Art

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Prof Luba Freedman

Coordinator Email: lubafre@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays around the hours of my
courses (#7708); by appointment via email; no messages are answered from
Thursdays to Sundays

Teaching Staff:
Prof Luba Freedman

Course/Module description:
The objective of the seminar is to acquaint students with major paintings of the great Venetian master, Tiziano Vecellio, and with major research questions raised in
the modern scholarship and demonstrated through recent exhibitions. The seminar
presents major works in three categories of painting: portraiture, religious works,
and secular subjects. It also discusses the early and late styles of the master raising
the question of of his "middle" style. In the seminar, the artist's works are discussed
in relation to the works of his contemporaries and in relation to trends of contemporary thought. Occasionally, works in the early and late styles are
intentionally juxtaposed, and the question of recurrent subjects and motifs in
Titian's so multifaceted oeuvre is often raised.

Course/Module aims:
to grant knowledge about the Venetian visual culture with emphasis on paintings; to see works of Titian in the light of works of his contemporaries; to get acquainted with painter's various techniques with regard to subjects and forms of discussed works; to write a research paper with distinction between facts and hypotheses and between ideas of critics and those of scholars.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
to learn in depth masterpieces of the great Venetian painter and understand relationship between the subject and form of his works; to distinguish between categories of works; to raise questions about works by way of combining
observation and knowledge; to write a research paper and present ideas in lecture
form on the level of conference presentations.

Attendance requirements(%):
90

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: use of power point פresentations; combination of frontal lectures and גiscussions of raised subjects. PS. It is highly advisable to present your research subjects in the form of oral reports.

Course/Module Content:
1. Titian's Self-Portraits and Titian's awareness of the changing status of a
Renaissance master; styles
2. Selected works on the same subject from early and late styles.
3. Giovanni Bellini's styles.
4. Portraiture before 1545
5. Portraiture from 1545 to 1576.
6. Religious works: Part One
7. Religious works: Part Two
8. Secular subjects: Part One
9. Secular subjects: Part Two
10.Titian's Contemporaries
11. Early Titian
12. Assunta as the Turning Point in Titian's Career
13.St. Jerome from Bellini to Titian

Required Reading:
Crowe, J. A. and and G.B. Cavalcaselle. Titian: His Life and Times with some account
of his family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. London, 1877 (2010
digital).
Falomir, Miguel, ed. Tiziano. Madrid, 2003 (Spanish and English).
Ferino-Pagden, Sylvia, ed. Late Titian and the Sensuality of Painting. Venice, 2008.
Hope, Charles. Titian. London, 2003. (Based on his 1980 monograph).
Humfrey, Peter. Titian. London, 2007.
Joannides, Paul. Titian to 1518: the Emergence of Genius. New Haven, CT, 2001.
Panofsky, Erwin. Problems in Titian Most Iconographic. New York, 1969.
Rosand, David, ed. Titian: His World and His Legacy. New York, 1982.
Titian: Prince of Painters; National Gallery, Washington, D.C., October 28, 1990 –
January 27, 1991. Venice, 1990.
Valcanover, Francesco, ed. Tutta la pittura di Tiziano. Milan, 1960.
Villa, Giovanni F. C., ed. Titian. Milan, 2013. ND 623 T545 T57 2013
Wethey, Harold E. The Paintings of Titian: Complete Edition. 3 vols. London
1969-1972. (The major catalogue.)
Documentary (chronologically in relation to Titian's Life)
Roskill, Mark. Dolce’s “Aretino” and Venetian Art Theory of the Cinquecento. New
York, 1968. ND 1130 D573 R6 (Lodovico Dolce’s Dialogo della pittura, 1557)
Vasari, Giorgio. The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Trans. Gaston
du C. de Vere with an introduction and notes by David Ekserdjian, 2 vols. New York,
1996, II: pp. 780-803. in pdf on e-reserve (1568) N 6922 V3313 1996
Ridolfi, Carlo. The Life of Titian. Trans. Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter
Bondanella. Ed. Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella, Bruce Cole, and Jody Robin Shiffman, University Park, Pa., 1996. ND 623 T 545 R 5313 (1648)

Additional Reading Material:
Brown Fortini, Patricia. Venice & Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past. New
Haven and London, 1996. N 6921 V5 B76
Hills, Paul. Venetian Colour. New Haven and London, 1999. N 6921 V5 H56
Huse, Norbert and Wolters, Wolfgang. The Art of Renaissance Venice: Architecture,
Sculpture and Painting, 1460-1590. Chicago, 1990. N 6921 V5 H873
Meilman, Patricia, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Titian. Cambridge and New
York, 2004. ND 623 T545 M46 2004
Rosand, David. Painting in Cinquecento Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto. New
Haven and London, 1982. ND 621 V5 R68
Le Si טcle de Titien: l’ גge d’or de la peinture א V טnise; Grand Palais 9 mars - 14 juin
1993. Paris, 1993. ND 621 V5 S55
Wilde, Johannes. Venetian Art from Bellini to Titian. Oxford, 1974. ND 621 V5 W67
RECOMMENDED:
Anderson, Jaynie. Giorgione; The Painter of ‘Poetic Beauty,’ Including Catalogue
Raisonn י. Paris and New York, 1997. ND 623 G438 A53
D’Elia, Una Roman. The Poetics of Titian’s Religious Paintings. Cambridge and New
York, 2005.
Fehl, Philipp. Decorum and Wit: The Poetry of Venetian Painting; Essays in the
History of the Classical Tradition. Vienna, 1992. ND 621 V5 F34
Freedman, Luba. Titian’s Portraits through Aretino’s Lens. University Park, Pa.,
1995.
Humfrey, Peter, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini. Cambridge and
New York, 2004. ND 623 B418 H85 2004
Ilchman, Frederick with contributions by Linda Borean ... [et al.]. Titian, Tintoretto,
Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Farnham, 2009. ND 621 V5 T58 2009
Meilman, Patricia. Titian and the Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice. Cambridge and
New York, 2000. ND 623 T545 M45
Puttfarken, Thomas. Titian and Tragic Painting: Aristotle’s ’Poetics’ and the Rise of
the Modern Artist. New Haven and London, 2005.
Tagliaferro, Giorgio and Bernard Aikema with Matteo Mancini and Andrew John
Martin. Le botteghe di Tiziano. Florence, 2009.
Tiziano e Venezia. Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Venezia, 1976. Vicenza, 1980
(numerous articles and plates).
Woods-Marsden, Joanna, ed.; intro. David Rosand. Titian: Materiality, Likeness,
Istoria. Turnhout, 2007.

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 100 %
written paper or referat

Additional information:
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