From celebrated gardens in private villas to the paintings and sculptures that adorned palace interiors, Venetians in the sixteenth century conceived of their marine city as dotted with actual and ima
Considers the changing conception of portraiture in the sixteenth century, by exploring how a visual dialogue with the beholder encourages the viewer to perceive the portrait as open and responsive. D
"Extends formalism to facture and situates the materiality of Titian's later works within the late sixteenth-century interest in embodiment and violence rather than within the Renaissance ideals of cl