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Titian's Pietro Aretino (Frick Diptych) (Hardcover)
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Titian's Pietro Aretino (Frick Diptych) (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R500
Discovery Miles 5 000
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An essay by Xavier F. Salomon, Frick Curator, paired with a
contribution by author Francine Prose bring to life one of Titian's
most personal and revealing portraits. Author of lives of saints,
scurrilous verses, comedies, tragedies, and innumerable letters,
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) attained considerable wealth and
influence, in part through literary flattery and blackmail. Little
is known of his early years, but by 1527 he had settled permanently
in Venice. Among Aretino's friends and patrons were some of the
most prominent figures of his time, several of whom gave him gold
chains such as the one he wears in this portrait. He was on
intimate terms with Titian, who painted at least three portraits of
him. Here the artist conveys his friend's intellectual power
through the keen, forceful head and his worldliness through the
solid, weighty mass of the richly robed figure.
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