Maria H. Loh is professor of art history at CUNY Hunter College. Previously she taught in the Department of History of Art at University College London. She is the author of Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art and Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master. She lives and works in New York and London.
"More than anyone it was Titian who launched what would remain for
half a millennium the quintessential art object: the framed,
autonomous painting executed in oil on canvas. At long last, Loh
has given us a book that does justice to this immense historical
achievement. Titian's Touch is a peerless introduction to the
artist and a mesmerizing primer in how to look at
paintings."--Joseph Leo Koerner, Harvard University
"With Titian's Touch, Loh has achieved something quite rare, a
genuinely fresh and engaging study of an artist whose paintings may
be very familiar but are very difficult to turn into a satisfying
account. In some ways this book is like a journey that starts from
a known place and takes you somewhere you could not have imagined,
and does so by interconnecting an impressive depth of knowledge
with a highly imaginative approach to images. It is witty and
elegant, and always self-aware. And, most importantly, it
reconnects the work of Titian with a broader and more contemporary
readership."--Rose Marie San Juan, University College London
"This short book reminds us of Titian's achievement, something we
may be too much inclined to take for granted. . . . What Loh does
is to explain how Titian, a master of capturing the physical world,
did so the more skillfully because of his exploration of the
mysteries lying beneath."-- "Catholic Herald"
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