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Veiled Presence - Body and Drapery from Giotto to Titian (Hardcover)
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Veiled Presence - Body and Drapery from Giotto to Titian (Hardcover)
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This wide-ranging book elucidates the symbolism of veils and
highlights the power of drapery in Italian art from Giotto to
Titian. In the cities of the Renaissance, display of luxury dress
was a marker of status. Florentines decked out their palaces and
streets with textiles for public rituals. But cloths are also the
stuff of fantasy: throughout the book, the author moves from the
material to the metaphorical. Curtains and veils, swaddling and
shrouds, evoke associations with birth and death. The central
chapters address the sculpture of Ghiberti and Donatello, focusing
on how they deployed drapery to dramatic effect. In the final
chapters the focus shifts to the paintings of Bellini, Lotto, and
Titian, where drapery both clothes the figures and composes the
picture. In the work of Titian, the veiled presence of the body is
absorbed within the materials of oil-paint on canvas: medium and
subject become one.
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