Lumen Christi Institute | Titian's Icons: Logos and Kairos in Renaissance Devotion, with Christopher Nygren @LumenChristiInt | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
A webinar lecture by Professor Christopher Nygren (University of Pittsburgh) presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the American Cusanus Society. Part of our summer webinar series, "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture."
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Titian is one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance. He is mostly known for his amazing mythological paintings and depictions of the female nude, which became a staple of the tradition of European painting. It is less well known that Titian was credited by his contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image. Looking at his paintings in light of this fact, it becomes clear that Titian dedicated a great deal of energy to painting small-format pictures depicting biblical subjects, which can rightly be called icons. This presentation will outline Titian’s engagement with icons and show how the artist frequently deviated from received subjects and iconographies to develop new kinds of icons that were directed at inciting conversion in the beholder.
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For more information on this series, please visit lumenchristi.org/renaissance
A webinar lecture by Professor Christopher Nygren (University of Pittsburgh) presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the American Cusanus Society. Part of our summer webinar series, "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture."
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Titian is one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance. He is mostly known for his amazing mythological paintings and depictions of the female nude, which became a staple of the tradition of European painting. It is less well known that Titian was credited by his contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image. Looking at his paintings in light of this fact, it becomes clear that Titian dedicated a great deal of energy to painting small-format pictures depicting biblical subjects, which can rightly be called icons. This presentation will outline Titian’s engagement with icons and show how the artist frequently deviated from received subjects and iconographies to develop new kinds of icons that were directed at inciting conversion in the beholder.
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For more information on this series, please visit lumenchristi.org/renaissance
