Maria H. Loh
Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art
Los Angeles:
Getty Research Institute,
2007.
272 pp.; 24 color ills.; 44 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780892368730)
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These two publications represent opposite ends of the spectrum of approaches to art history today and are clearly intended for different audiences. While Maria Loh approaches Padovanino’s “remaking” of Titian’s compositions in the early seventeenth century with the stated goal of “wrenching the writing of art history from a discourse that secures privileged seating for its ‘great masters’” (14), Peter Humphrey’s volume is the first in a series projected by Ludion called the “Classical Art...