THE POETRY OF...

THE POETRY OF VENETIAN PAINTING. Paris Bordone, Palma il Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto, Tizian | Feb 24th - May 21th 2017 | special exhibition
catalogue for special exhibition | 304 pages | 220 illustrations | hardcover | Hirmer Verlag | german edition

Venice was the vibrant center of great artistic innovations in the 16th century. Using new types of color pigments, the painters around Titian devoted themselves to new pictorial subjects in an unprecedented poetic and sensual conception. Richly illustrated, this volume conveys the fascination of virtuosic image conception ranging from allegorical depictions and mythological scenes to erotically charged ideal female portraits and male portraits, as well as the reception of ancient architecture. With around 90 works, the focus is on the oeuvre of Paris Bordone, whose work in the shadow of Titian can be discovered here in all its facets.