Rona Goffen Books
Titian's Women
By Rona Goffen
Richly illustrated with paintings by Titian, this book examines the artist's enduring fascination with the theme of the beautiful woman. Well-known Renaissance scholar Rona Goffen offers a new inte...
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Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian
By Rona Goffen
"For the great Renaissance masters, the creation of art was not only an intellectual or aesthetic exercise. It was a contest. The artists of sixteenth-century Italy knew each other's work, knew eac...
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Titian's 'Venus of Urbino'
By Rona Goffen
A quintessential work of the High Renaissance in Venice, Titian's Venus of Urbino also represents one of the major themes of Western art: the female nude. But how did Titian intend this work to be...
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