ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Renaissance artist Michelangelo was both influenced by, and strongly influenced, other great artists from his contemporary world. In this illustrated video podcast Michelangelo scholar Bill Wallace, Washington University in St. Louis, discusses his research on the artistic relationship between Michelangelo and the great Venetian master Titian and how we can use the power of imagination in combination with art historical knowledge to understand the artists' time.
You'll also learn about the different colourists - Pontormo, da Volterra, Venusti - that Michelangelo worked with, his collaboration with Del Piombo, Titian's daughter Lavinia who was a great artist herself, Vasari's divergent descriptions of Michelangelo and Titian in his Lives of Artists and more.
Host: Howard Burton
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Michelangelo's The Fall and Titian's The Jealous Husband
8:20 Michelangelo's Rebellious Slave and Titian's St. Sebastian
9:58 The power of informed imagination to understand an artist's time
14:52 Documentary evidence on Michelangelo's encounters with Titian and his art
19:37 Michelangelo's use of influences to create radically original art
28:05 The effects of the collaboration between Michelangelo and Del Piombo
31:40 Colourist collaborators of Michelangelo: Pontormo, da Volterra, Venusti
37:45 Michelangelo's influences on Titian
39:44 Vasari's Lives of Artists and Titian's Judith and Holofernes
43:22 Titian's daughter and painter Lavinia and attribution
46:16 It's too bad Venetians never learned how to draw
* For essays about art by Howard Burton, visit our Exploring Art History blog: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/.
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The music in this podcast is licensed from Artlist.
