IntroductionOn the status of painting in the Renaissance -- Painting, poetry and the liberal arts -- Imitation, moral purpose and learning -- Tragedy -- Titian and tragedy -- The four great sinners -- Michelangelo and Titian: terribilità and tragic pathos -- Titian's mythological paintings: problems of interpretation -- Titian's poesie for Philip II as painted tragedies -- The final tragedies and Titian's 'late style' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
