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Titian and Tragic Painting: Aristotle's Poetics and the Rise of the Modern Artist.(Book review)
From: The Art Bulletin
Date: 20061201
Author:Duro, Paul
THOMAS PUTTFARKEN
Titian and Tragic Painting: Aristotle's Poetics and the Rise of the Modern Artist
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 256 pp.; 20 color ills. and 65 b/w. $50.00
It's impossible to overestimate the importance of Aristotle's Poetics for an understanding of the visual arts, at least for the art of Italy and France from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. It wasn't always so. While the Poetics survived in several forms, including a tenth-century Arabic and thirteenth-century Latin translation, few of Aristotle's thoughts on literature were ...
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