Coming to theaters a film dedicated to Titian

The new season of Nexo Digital’s La Grande Arte al Cinema returns to Italian theaters with a docufilm dedicated to one of the iconic painters of Venice and the Renaissance: Titian Vecellio (1488/1490 -1576). The appointment is for October 3, 4, 5 with Titian. The Empire of Color, directed by Laura Chiossone and Giulio Boato and written by Lucia Toso and Marco Panichella with supervision by Donato Dallavalle, a Sky, Kublai Film, Zetagroup, Gebrueder Beetz and Arte ZDF production.

The docufilm traces nearly a century in the life of the young man who, at the opening of the 1500s, in a gold-covered city soaring admiringly above a sunken forest, descended from the Dogado Mountains to be remembered as “the most excellent of those who painted.” An extraordinary artist and a brilliant entrepreneur of himself, as innovative in composing a work as he was in knowing how to sell it, Titian became the official painter of the Serenissima within a few years and a supreme artist sought after by the richest and most famous courts ofEurope. From Ferrara to Urbino, from Mantua to Rome to the Spain of Charles V and his son Philip II, Titian traversed the century illuminating it with his paintings and inspiring artists of all subsequent eras. A perfect interpreter of religion and mythology and a portraitist of immediate expressive power, he dominated his time by overshadowing his contemporaries, always holding fast to his motto: “art is more powerful than nature.”

In Titian. The Empire of Color, international experts, critics, scholars and artists recount the artist’s life and style, his temperament, his ambitions. And then the Venice that, throughout his existence, would remain the base of operations from which he would move to conquer and create an “empire of color,” an exceptional creative hotbed capable of welcoming travelers and influences from all over the world. We are told about this in the film by Amina Gaia Abdelouahab, independent curator and art historian, co-founder and vice-president of Project A; Bernard Aikema, Professor of History of Modern Art at theUniversity of Verona; Brunello Cucinelli, fashion designer and entrepreneur, funder of the Forum of the Arts; Francesca Del Torre, scientific assistant at the Institute of History ofArt of the Cini Foundation and curator for Italian Renaissance painting at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Miguel Falomir Faus, Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, a scholar of Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, exhibition curator, formerly Curator of Italian Renaissance Painting and Director of the Art Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Jeff Koons, one of the most influential and followed in the world, Patrizia Piscitello, art historian, curator, head of the Exhibitions and Loans Office and Curator collections of the sixteenth century of the Capodimonte Museum and Real Bosco, Tiziana Plebani, historian, culturer of Modern History at theCa’ Foscari University of Venice, formerly head of the History and Education Department at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Giorgio Tagliaferro, Associate Professor in Renaissance Art at theUniversity of Warwick with a Ph.D. in Art History from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.

Also composing the artist’s story are investigations into his affections, such as that for his beloved daughter Lavinia, and his relationships with the great personalities of his time: the Duke of Ferrara Alfonso I; the poet and intellectual Pietro Aretino, rock star of the Renaissance; the Marquise of Mantua, collector and unrivaled patron, Isabella d’Este; Emperor Charles V; Pope Paul III; King Philip II of Spain; and the celebrated “rival” Jacopo Tintoretto.

If for three centuries the tomb of Titian, who was killed by the plague in 1576, would be decorated only by a tombstone, his production would influence the great artists of the following eras and still continues to dialogue with his contemporaries, as Jeff Koons himself explains in the docufilm, recounting his absolute fascination with the painterly gesture and Titian’s workshop: elements that unite him, more than four hundred years later, with the revolutionary Venetian painter.

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Coming to theaters a film dedicated to Titian

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