This year, Titian died 450 years ago. To mark this, my colleagues at the Centro Studi Tiziano e Cadore, Bernard Aikema and Thomas Dalla Costa, organized an exhibition in the artist’s home town of Pieve di Cadore, in the foothilss of the Dolomites. A small, focused show, it centred on Titian’s treatment of landscape and the revolution in approach to landscape that he helped usher into European art in the the sixteenth century. The exhibition closes on Sunday, and I am happy to say that it was well-attended despite being rather out of the way of most tourist routes and presented a judcious and coherent treatment of a subject that has not been treated as comprehenseively or satisfactorily as one might first think — the legacy of Venetian renaissance landscape, esepcially in the graphic arts.
I contributed an article to the catalogue, see above, that delves into Titian’s interconnected practices of drawing, painting and printmaking, which offers a number of new insights into his varied approach especially to designing for print. I recommend checking it out, if you’re interested in Titian. Order it here!
