This dissertation is an inquiry into the emergence of the pastoral landscape in the visual arts of Venice in relation to the culture's framework of spatial experience--both actual and fictive--during the Renaissance period. For although the development of the pastoral as an inde…
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This dissertation reconstructs the original form and sixteenth-century decoration of the lost Venetian church of Santa Maria Assunta dei Crociferi, destroyed after the suppression of the Crociferi in 1656 to make way for the present church of the Gesuiti. The destruction of the …
There have been numerous scholarly interpretations of Titian’s Venus of Urbino since Giorgio Vasari first named the work upon seeing it in 1548. Even so, problems remain in Titian’s hermeneutics and semiology relevant to the artist’s personal circumstances that places the Venus …
This thesis examines the role played by Titian’s three portraits of Pope Paul III, Portrait of Pope Paul III without his Cap (1543), Portrait of Pope Paul III with Camauro (1545–46), and Portrait of Pope Paul III with his Grandsons (1545–46), in creating his persona of reformer …
Venetian painter Tiziano Vecellio, more commonly referred to as Titian, created a cycle of mythological paintings based on scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses for King Philip II of Spain. These works are often viewed through an eroticized lens due to this inclusion of nude mortals …