Well-known Renaissance scholar Rona Goffen examines the painter Titian's enduring fascination with the theme of beautiful woman. Goffen offers a new interpretation of the artist's paintings of women in the context of life in 16th-century Venice. Without denying the erotic appeal of Titian's women, Goffen goes beyond sexual suggestion to show the larger themes that women symbolized for the artist. 60 color and 117 b&w illustrations.
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Well-known Renaissance scholar Rona Goffen examines the painter Titian's enduring fascination with the theme of beautiful woman. Goffen offers a new interpretation of the artist's paintings of women in the context of life in 16th-century Venice. Without denying the erotic appeal of Titian's women, Goffen goes beyond sexual suggestion to show the larger themes that women symbolized for the artist. 60 color and 117 b&w illustrations.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Fair. HARDCOVER Acceptable-This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. Oversized.
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Near Fine in Very Good Plus jacket. Folio. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, first printing. Folio, 9 1/2" x 12 1/4", ix+342pp., illustrated with 177 color and B&W reproductions. "Well-known Renaissance scholar Rona Goffen examines the painter Titian's enduring fascination with the theme of beautiful woman. Goffen offers a new interpretation of the artist's paintings of women in the context of life in 16th-century Venice. Without denying the erotic appeal of Titian's women, Goffen goes beyond sexual suggestion to show the larger themes that women symbolized for the artist." Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with two short, closed tears.
