Author: Crowe, J A [ Joseph Archer ] & Cavalcaselle, G B [ Giovanni Battista ]
Title: The Life And Times Of Titian - With Some Account Of His Family [ 2 volumes complete ]
Description: John Murray, Albermarle Street, 1881, 2nd edition. Cloth, VG. 2 volumes, xlviii+459pp, x+541pp, b/w frontis to each volume, grand total of 17 b/w plates, index to the whole in volume I, Ex Libris Lionel Henry Cust with his Armorial bookplate, cloth rubbed somewhat along the edges, a nice set. Laid in are a series of cuttings from The Times newspaper letters page concerning a dispute between Lord Darnley & J A Crowe as to the identity of a sitter in a painting of Titian's lent by Darnley to an exhibition. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A life of Tiziano Vecelli [ 1488 - 1576 ] known as Titian & the most important painter of the 16th C Venitian School. Sir Joseph Archer Crowe [ 1825 - 1896 ] & Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle [ 1819 - 1897 ] art historians who's works on the hisotry of art stand at the beginning of disciplined modern art history writing in English. This book was the first major monograph on Titian. Sir Lionel Henry Cust [ 1859 - 1929 ] British art historian, and director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1895 to 1909.

Keywords: art, italian art, renaissance art, old masters, painting,