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The Life of Titian
by Carlo Ridolfi by Julia Conaway Bondanella and
Peter Bondanella (eds. and trans.), and Bruce Cole and Jody Robin Shiffman (eds.)
1996
Art History, History - European,
Comparative Literature
Paperback: $29.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-01627-6
"To
praise the translation would almost be presumptuous, for it has been
done by Julia and Peter Bondanella, who have also provided us with
the finest translation of Vasari's Lives, now available, and
other excellent translations. The Ridolfi translation is up to their
high standards; it reads well, and we can have utter confidence in
its accuracy. The critical apparatus is very useful indeed."-Paul
Barolsky, University of Virginia
After Vasari's Lives of the Most Famous Artists, The Life of
Titian by the seventeenth-century Venetian artist and writer
Carlo Ridolfi is the most important contemporary documentary source
for our understanding of the great Renaissance artist. This new
critical edition, the first translation into English of Ridolfi's
biography, illuminates his life, his artistic production, and his
early critical reputation. The editors address art-historical questions
of attribution, provenance, and documentation that Ridolfi's biography
raises. Two introductory essays present the nature, scope, and importance
of the biography for the study of Titian and Venetian Renaissance
art and place Ridolfi in the tradition of Renaissance biography
and artistic literature. The annotations provide a useful and current
bibliography drawn from both art history and literature. The
Life of Titian will be of interest to a wide audience of scholars
and students of the history of Renaissance art, literature, language,
and culture.
Julia
Conaway Bondanella is Associate Professor of Italian and Associate
Director of the Honors Division at Indiana University. She has edited
and translated many books, most recently (with Peter Bondanella) The
Lives of the Most Famous Artists by Giorgio Vasari (Oxford, 1991).
Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative
Literature at Indiana University. His books include The Eternal City:
Roman Images in the Modern World (North Carolina, 1987).
Bruce Cole is Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana
University. His books include Piero della Francesca (HarperCollins,
1990).
Jody Robin Shiffman is Associate Instructor of Italian at Indiana
University. She is Associate Editor of theDictionary of Italian Literature
(Greenwood Press, 2d rev. ed., 1996).
