Biography & Memoir
Sheila Hale . Introduced by Martin Kemp
Titian: His Life
5:00pm | Saturday 15 September 2012Tickets: | Duration: | Venue: |
£N/A | 1 Hour | The Oxfordshire Museum |
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Sheila Hale’s biography of Titian, one of the world’s greatest artists, is the first account of his life to be published in more than 130 years. Publication coincides with a major new Titian exhibition at the National Gallery as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The artist’s career spanned more than 70 years during the Renaissance. Titian was a difficult man but was courted by popes and kings, completing up to 600 paintings. Hale examines his life and art and his impact on artists of the time and right up to today.
Hale is author of many works including a highly acclaimed guidebook to Venice that prompted Eric Newby to declare she deserved a Nobel Prize. In Titian: His Life, she examines not only the life of the artist, but also Renaissance Venice. She explains how it was overshadowed by Rome and Florence but grew into the famous city we know today.