Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Warwick
Article title
La pala di Serravalle e la congiuntura degli anni '40
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Venezia Cinquecento
Article number
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Volume number
18
Issue number
35
First page of article
41
ISSN of journal
1125 1735
Year of publication
2008
URL
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Number of additional authors
-
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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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
This article addresses Titian’s altarpiece of c. 1542-52 in the Duomo of Serravalle, near Treviso. It reconstructs the history of this painting by analysing new documents, and connects it to the painter’s commercial interests in the area. Analysing its quotation of Raphael’s cartoon of the Miraculous Draught of Fishes for the Sistine Chapel tapestries, the article advances a reading of the painting as a critique of the papacy, an interpretation it relates to Titian’s engagement with pope Paul III and the Farnese family, his promotion of his son Pomponio to the clergy, and his proximity to the ‘spirituali’.
