In 1994 there appeared one of the great cultural and intellectual histories of our time, “The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance.” Because its author, Sir John Hale, had suffered a stroke just ...

He may not have a Ninja Turtle named after him, but Tiziano Vecellio of Venice — Titian, to English speakers — has a claim to being the most enduringly influential painter of the Renaissance, even ...

“It illuminates the life and times of the Renaissance master with a level of detail and context typically reserved for the biographies of princes and kings” “A wonderful, often overlooked lecture on ...

This is a long book about a long life, a large volume about a large talent. Titian, its titular subject, was the most celebrated painter of his time. He died in his beloved Venice, Italy, on Aug. 27, ...

In 1994 there appeared one of the great cultural and intellectual histories of our time, “The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance.” Because its author, Sir John Hale, had suffered a stroke just ...

THIS first American biography of Titian and first book in English about him since 1877 treats the human problem as well as the artistic in revitalizing the neglected master who “in many ways was the ...

Drawing upon her experience as research assistant to the celebrated Renaissance historian John Hale (her late husband), Hale frames her first foray into historical scholarship by tracing one artist’s ...