Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Warwick
Article title
Clientele cittadine, affari privati e produzione di bottega : Tiziano e i Balbi dal Legname
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
Title of journal
Venezia cinquecento : studi di storia dell'arte e della cultura
Article number
-
Volume number
21
Issue number
40
First page of article
107
ISSN of journal
1825-4799
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Based on archival research, this article addresses Titian’s relationship with the Balbis: a middle-class Venetian family related to him, with whom he shared interests in the timber trade. It discloses connections between the artist and affluent circles of the Venetian bourgeoisie in the years 1550-70s, which included lawyers and members of the State bureaucracy, as well as shopkeepers and colour merchants connected with the Scuola della Carità. The analysis demonstrates both how this extended network was supported by Titian’s prestige, and how it fostered the artist’s social ambitions at the same time as his artistic activity.
