Cleo Nisse

Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A richly illustrated investigation of how the adoption of canvas revolutionized Venetian Renaissance painting, from the Bellini and Titian to Veronese and Tintoretto

Between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries, European painting underwent a profound transformation as artists increasingly painted on canvas instead of wood or walls. Nowhere was more important to this shift than Venice, where painters experimented with canvas with remarkable creativity and innovation. In Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting, Cleo Nisse investigates why Venetian artists adopted canvas and how it revolutionized their art between 1400 and 1600.

Intertwining approaches from art history and art conservation, and featuring stunning new photographs that show details as never before, the book presents groundbreaking research based on close study of Venetian artworks, archival sources, art-making treatises, and early modern art criticism. It sheds new light on the materiality of early modern canvas, its production and supply, and the influence of climate on its use. The book offers fresh interpretations of iconic works and important concepts such as pittura di macchia and non finito, and demonstrates how canvas contributed to the radical new style of painters such as Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. But above all else, it shows how canvas changed the making and meaning of paintings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691288888
• Artikelnr.: 75170176

Autorenporträt

Cleo Nisse is assistant professor of art history at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She is the coeditor of Titian's Poetics: Selected Essays by David Rosand. In addition to a PhD in art history from Columbia University, she holds a postgraduate degree in painting conservation from the Courtauld Institute.