The synthesis of more than thirty years of studies on the painter, giving us the figure of a different Titian. Not the usual courtier and colored painter of princes, popes and beautiful women, but a new artist, a painter who reflects and debates with intellectuals on contemporary issues and current problems between politics and religion, music and literature. A painter ready to break away from Venice and the last Italian lordships to address the risk of the European dimension. Titian, in the history of ideas.
Augusto Gentili teaches History of Modern Art at the University of Venice since 1997. Previously, he was assistant of History of Modern Art and then Professor of Art History at the Rome University "La Sapienza".