Renaissance Art Titian

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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.This course focuses on Titian’s place in the history of art. The aims will be twofold: first, students will be instructed on the social, cultural, and economic world in which the artist operated. Second, this course will examine the different methodologies that art historians have taken in their approach to Titian.