TITIAN: A Fresh Look at Nature

A National Gallery publication which looks at the revolutionary achievement of the youthful Titian which was made possible by his interaction with four great artists at the start of his career. Schooled by Bellini, associated with Giorgione, competed with Sebastiano del Piombo, he came into early contact with the work of Dürer. Here Antonio Mazzotta provides a fresh view of this brief and extraordinary episode in the history of art, focussing on Titian's great 'Flight into Egypt' and related paintings in the National Gallery. Titian is acknowledged as the greatest of the 16th century Venetian painters, best known for his portraits, mythological pictures and religious subjects, yet by studying the work of Dürer's paintings of plants, animals and landscape, Titian caused a sensation in Venice in the first decade of the 16th century. This is a beautiful and now rare 88 page large square softback art exhibition catalogue from 2012 which we have been lucky enough to discover in the USA and import. Rich with colour throughout with images of the Madonna and child on a donkey, foxes, wolves, a pastoral concert, archangel plus examples from Dürer et al.