Titian's icons: tradition, charisma, and devotion in Renaissance Italy

Abstract

"A reexamination of the career of Titian, the only Renaissance artist credited by contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image. Argues that a major part of the artist's legacy is to be found in his charismatic entrance into the tradition of Christian icon painting"--

Contents

Introduction : Titian, charismatic painter -- Icons and agency : the San Rocco Christ carrying the cross -- Icons and exegesis in Ferrara : Christ with the coin and Judith/Salome -- Erasmian icons : visualizing the Philosophia Christi -- Icons and community : Rome and the network of Ecce homos -- Rupestrian icons : Ecce homo on slate, Mater Dolorosa on marble, and the matter of devotion -- Explicit icons : historicity between tradition and self -- The twilight of the icon? : Titian's Pietà in the Galleriie dell'Academia.