Titian: His Life - Tapa dura

"An engrossing new biography...a portrait of Titian in his time...which should endure as the standard Life for the next century"--Financial Times

"Hale provides subtle insights into Titian's enigmatic last paintings...A scrupulous and exhaustive account that is informed by the latest scholarship, but admirably free of academic cant."--Daily Telegraph (London)

"A magnificent new biography...The elegance and energy of her narrative, together with a born biographer's eye for detail, make...[this] eminently readable and profoundly authentic..."--Jonathan Keates, Literary Review

"An exceptional biography of Titian...a superb portrait of the artist-an example of measured scholarship, judicious opinion, and telling framing detail"--The Guardian

"Titian stands out among his peers as Shakespeare does among writers, and Sheila Hale's authoritative and readable book is more than worthy of her subject."--The Economist

"This definitive biography of the great Renaissance painter in over a century is a landmark achievement."--Publishers Weekly, "Top 10 in Art and Architecture"

"Hale's approach is to try to understand the times in which he lived, and she succeeds brilliantly in capturing the pulse of 16th-century Venice, where the artist spent his working life. . . . Highly readable."--Wall Street Journal

"Impressive...entertaining...a feat of research...crammed with new or expanded or rethought information about this stubbornly mysterious giant"--Waldemar Januszczak, Sunday Times (London)

"Scholarly, erudite, panoramic, endlessly inquisitive and as clear as can be."--Craig Brown, The Mail

"[A] magnificent account of the incomparable Venetian artist Titian and the world he lived in...Hale writes an elegant, even worldly prose...delicious as well as authoritative...For me, it's the biography of the year."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post

A full-length biography of a leading painter of the Italian High Renaissance takes into account recent historical art research and scholarship and examines all contemporary accounts of Titian's life and work, attempting to explain the evolution of his complex methods. 20,000 first printing.