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The Muddied Mirror

Materiality and Figuration in Titian's Later Paintings
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Extends formalism to facture and situates the materiality of Titian's later works within the late sixteenth-century interest in embodiment and violence rather than within the Renaissance ideals of classicizing beauty and perfection.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Substance of Renaissance

1. “Speculum cum macula”: Materiality and Desire

2. Myths of (Un)Making

3. Violence and Retrospection

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Cranston provides one of the most provocative critical examinations currently available of the rhetoric and reception of style in Renaissance art. . . . Cranston's text is logically argued and, like the paintings discussed, beautifully and effectively crafted. Its greatest value lies in mapping out new approaches to analyzing style in sixteenth-century visual culture. . . . The newness of the author's approach has indeed introduced analytical tactics not often seen in scholarship on Renaissance art.”

—Andrew R. Casper, Sixteenth Century Journal

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