Artist: Titian (1488 -1576)

Item Title:

The Paintings of Titian : Complete Edition.

Author:

Wethey, Harold

ISBN:

0714813931

Item Number:

v.1-v.3

Imprint:

London : Phaidon, 1969-1975.

Language:

English

Size:

30 cm

Pages:

viii + 390 (v.1); xi + 426 (v.2); vii +480 (v.3)

Illustrations:

numerous b&w, some color

Concordance:

No

Bibliography:

Yes

Index:

Yes

Exhibition List:

No

Chronology:

Yes

Content Note:

v.1: Religious paintings -- v.2: Portraits -- v.3: Mythological and historical paintings.

Individual Entries Contain:

Provenance; Bibliog.; Comments

Public Note:

The catalogue is organized alphabetically by subject and chronologically within subheadings. Entries include brief notes on composition and subject matter (biographies of sitters in known portraits); lists of inscriptions; condition reports; variants; copies; lost items. Workshop replicas and copies are grouped in with autograph works by theme.

Appendices include lists of erroneous attributions, studio pieces, and lost works. There are also sections dealing with illustrations of prints, drawings, and related material; documents and varia (e.g., Titian's signatures, his titles and devices, his painted clocks, and the Brescia documents). Vol. 3 includes addenda to Vols. 1-2.