Venetian Colour by Paul Hills (1999, Hardcover) 
Venetian Colour by Paul Hills (1999, Hardcover)

 
Venetian Colour by Paul Hills (1999, Hardcover)

Author: Paul Hills
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1999-12-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0300081359
ISBN-13: 9780300081350
Product ID: EPID1132558
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Publication Date:1999-12-01

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Length:247 pages
Height:12.0 in
Width:10.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:63.4 oz

Publisher's Note
From the Middle Ages to this day, the colours of Venice have cast their spell over visitors to the city and inspired artists as diverse as Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Turner, and Monet. This wide-ranging book traces the origin of that enchantment by exploring for the first time Venetian colour in relation to social, cultural, and environmental forces. Italian Renaissance art historian Paul Hills shows how, between 1250 and 1550, the city of Venice and the luxuries manufactured and traded there prompted particular ways of attending to colour. He argues that Venetian colour -- in buildings, table glass, and dress as well as paintings-was the product of a lagoon site and a mercantile culture. Exquisitely illustrated with over one hundred and fifty works of art and architecture, the book analyzes the colored marbles and mosaics in San Marco, examines the achievements of the Murano glass makers of the fifteenth century, and focuses attention on Giovanni Bellini's pictorial light and colour. Discussion of Renaissance dress and sumptuary regulations illuminates the social dimension of Venetian colour. The author shows, for example, how Titian's portraits responded to new fashions in velvets, satins, and semi-translucent veils. In the final chapter Hills questions the traditional opposition of Florentine line to Venetian colour, suggesting that Titian's bravura handling of the brushstroke was nurtured through his early experience of mosaics and woodcuts.

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"When we look again at the seductive illustrations and lose ourselves in Paul Hills's subtle prose, we feel that we have glided into a magical world of "visual culture", where reflections in water, lines in stone, threads in velvet, and twisting glass count for more than the larger currents of European art or the creative mind of any individual. But if we feel that we are drifting, we are also kept keenly alert. On every page we are shown something that we had not noticed previously."
Times Literary Supplement - Nicholas Perry (04/07/2000)

"Combining art history, aesthetic theory, technical analysis and the science of perception, this book offers a thoroughly refreshing approach to the study of pictures."
Wall Street Journal - Eric Gibson (12/03/1999)

"The text is clear but weighty, and many juxtapositions of photographic details in color underline the author's premises more persuasively than in any other book on Venetian art I've seen. A first-rate production that is literally marvelous."
Chicago Tribune - Alan G. Artner (12/05/1999)

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