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About the Author

After studying at Balliol College, Oxford, and the Courtauld Institute, Charles Hope was a Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, and then a Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge. He is now the director of the Warburg Institute, London and has a reputation as one of Titian's most show more notable scholars show less

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Works by Charles Hope

The Genius of Venice, 1500-1600 (1983) 85 copies

Titian (Icon Art) (1980) 25 copies

Titian (Chaucer) (2004) 12 copies

Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance painting (1979) 8 copies

Giorgione or Titian? History of a Controversy (2003) 3 copies

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Associated Works

The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism (1996) — Contributor — 112 copies

Titian: Prince of Painters [cat. exp., Palazzo Ducale, Venice June 2- Oct 7, 1990; National Gallery of Art, Washington… (1990) — Contributor — 103 copies

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini [abridgement by Charles Hope and Alessandro Nova of the Symonds translation] (1728) — Editor, some editions — 31 copies

On Antique Painting (1984) — Introduction, some editions — 12 copies

Pictorial Composition from Medieval to Modern Art (Warburg Institute Colloquia) (2001) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Birthdate: 1945-04-00
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Occupations: art historian
Organizations: The Warburg Institute, University of London

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Titian (National Gallery, London, 2003) by Charles Hope

Accompanying catalogue for the exhibition at the NG in 2003. It has very good introductory essays, covering Titian's life and times, his practice as a portrait painter and his replicas, and there is also detailed information about technique and analysis of paint samples. The downside is that the exhibition includes only a sample of Titian's paintings, so if you're looking for a book which includes entries on all his most famous works, this doesn't quite fit the bill. It is very good on those paintings it does include, though.… (more)

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