Titian, "Crowning with Thorn"

Abstract

The article deals with the principles of the creative method in the art of Titian Vecellio, the gratest painter of Venetian Renaissance, investigated on the base of analysis of two his paintings, "Crowning with Thorns", created at different stages of his life. To understand it in proper way it is possible to use in this respect the terms of classical rhetoric, which could be useful to deny some processes and principles of his work. Such a method helps to study them in the context of aesthetical polemics of mid-XVIth century on the merits of the two main Italian Renaissance schools of painting, Central Italian and Venetian.

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