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Palma Vecchio

Philip Rylands

(Cambridge studies in the history of art / edited by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny)

Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Palma il Vecchio : l'opera completa

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Originally published in Italian as: Palma il Vecchio : l'opera completa. Milano : Mondadori, 1988

"Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--King's College, Cambridge, 1981"--CIP data

Includes bibliography (p. 353-365) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Palma Vecchio (1480?-1528) was a leading painter of the Italian Renaissance in Venice. As a contemporary of Titian, his short career unfolded at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Golden Age of Venetian art that includes the work of Palladio, Tintoretto, Sansovino and Veronese. Like Giorgione and the young Titian, Palma participated in a crucial period of transition from an Early to a High Renaissance pictorical style in Venice. His paintings are famous for their sensual appeal: idealized saints in verdant landscapes, female nudes, beautiful and sensual women in half length portraits, grandiose altarpieces, and a rich and warm palette of vibrant colours. All documents are taken into consideration, and the fully illustrated catalogues establish a chronology and identify the autograph work. A substantial text in six chapters deals with the artist's work according to his characteristic subject matter: altarpieces, Madonnas and Saints, and portraits (male and female).

Table of Contents

  • List of plates
  • List of colour plates
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. The critical legacy
  • 2. Documents and documented paintings
  • 3. The altarpieces
  • 4. The Sacre Conversazioni
  • 5. The portraits
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Register of documents
  • Appendices
  • Family tree
  • Bibliography
  • Index of names
  • Index of places.

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