Ch'an
Ch'an (Chin.). The name of a major movement or school of Chinese
Buddhism that literally means ‘the meditation school’. This school generally sees itself as eschewing doctrinal, textual, and ethical studies in favour of the cultivation of a direct realization of the
Buddha's own enlightenment (
bodhi) experience. The word ‘ch'an’ itself was originally part of a two-character compound written ‘ch'an-na’, and was an attempt to render the
Sanskrit word
dhyāna (meditation) phonetically. In time, the second character was dropped and it became known simply as ‘ch'an’. Its techniques for cultivation include the study of
kōans and ‘silent illumination’ (Chin.,
mo-chao Ch'an). The former involves the contemplation of a short story about past, enlightened masters, or enigmatic phrases that push the practitioner to the limits of rationality in an attempt to break through to a direct realization of reality. The latter, often promoted in opposition to the former, involves simply sitting with no particular mental form or content in order to realize that one's Buddhahood is already complete and perfect as it is. See also
zen;
Ch'an-Tsung.
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Titian's Women.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Goffen challenges those critics who see Titian's depictions of women as little more...She argues (surely correctly) that Titian was sympathetic to women and represented...including viewers. She further insists that Titian's women are projections of himself...
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Titian & the Touch Of Greatness; In London, a National Gallery Retrospective Spotlights The Sweep of a Master's Brush -- and an Unparalleled Career
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/13/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the Venetian painter known simply as Titian. He's never really suffered from a lack of recognition. During his long life, Titian's flamboyantly brushed pictures earned...drawing daunting crowds. But the best of Titian's works have such an overwhelming greatness...
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Reviews: Titian: Titian's brush with death
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 2/23/2003; ; 700+ words
; TITIAN National Gallery, London THE old man stares...He is an artist. More than this, he is Titian - perhaps the greatest of all painters...is the least spectacular painting in the Titian exhibition at the National Gallery in London...
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Expert: 'Titian' masterpiece is the work of a lesser rival; Origin of Kelvingrove's most famous Venetian painting questioned by National Galleries director-general
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 8/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...is convinced a painting attributed to Titian is actually by a lesser artist - and worth...acknowledged in the art world as an early work by Titian, but Clifford believes it is more likely...Sebastian of the lead". A contemporary of Titian and fellow student in the Venetian studio...
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The Poetics of Titian's Religious Paintings.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Una Roman D'Elia. The Poetics of Titian's Religious Paintings. Cambridge...Renaissance literary theory have elucidated Titian's poesie and secular works. Here D...poetics on his sacred subjects, revealing Titian's mediation of pagan models in the volatile...
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TITIAN AT THE PRADO
News Wire article from: United Press International; 6/16/2003; 700+ words
; ...United Press International 06-16-2003 Titian at the Prado MADRID, Jun 16, 2003...Tiziano Vecellio, known in English as Titian, was a double genius. He was, firstly...well documented. The story is told that Titian once dropped his paintbrush in the presence...
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Portrait ID'd as a Titian after all
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 5/14/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the great Italian Renaissance painter Titian, this somber, unsigned oil portrait...researching the painting believes it is a Titian after all. It largely comes down to a...promised a German nobleman he would have Titian paint the portrait in a diplomatic exchange...
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Attention; It's Titian!
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/26/1990; ; 700+ words
; TITIAN IS COMING! Titian is coming! Titian opens Sunday at the National Gallery of Art! There's never been a Titian retrospective in this country before! There won't be another in our lifetimes! Come on down to the West Building! Hurry...
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Titian's eye: power neither avows nor conceals.
Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the Renaissance world asked painters--Titian in particular--to lay down their portraits...condottieri asserted and imposed themselves. Titian, especially, delineates their individuality...dreamy: they are present; they act. In Titian's portraits, the king does not drink...
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A sweeping look at Titian's final works
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/29/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...last years of Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian, are often as shrouded in uncertainties...persistent. According to tradition, although Titian had supposedly succumbed to the plague...his last two decades is the aim of ''Titian: The Last Act,'' curated by Lionello...
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Titian
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Titian The Italian painter Titian (c. 1488-1576) was a great master of religious art, a portraitist...have never been surpassed. Tiziano Vecellio, known in English as Titian, was born at Pieve di Cadore in the Alps north of Venice. Regarding...
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Titian (Tiziano Vecelli; 1488/1490–1576)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
TITIAN (Tiziano Vecelli; 1488/1490 – 1576) TITIAN (Tiziano Vecelli; 1488/1490 – 1576), Italian...Born in the Dolomite village of Cadore about 1490, Titian was trained in the Venetian workshops of Gentile and Giovanni...
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Titian (1490–1576)
Book article from: The Renaissance
Titian (1490 – 1576) Painter of Venice...of a mosaic artist, Sebastiano Zuccati. Titian next apprenticed in the Venetian workshop...whose works had an important influence on Titian's own. One of his early commissions was...
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Peale, Titian Ramsay
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
PEALE, TITIAN RAMSAY ( b . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 November 1799; d . Philadelphia, 13 March 1885) natural history . Titian Peale, youngest son of Charles Wilson peale and his second wife, Elizabeth DePeyster Peale, knew Philadelphia...
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Tintoretto
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...tintore ). He ranks second only to Titian among the Venetian painters of his time...and successful career. Whereas most of Titian's later paintings were done for foreign...says that he began an apprenticeship with Titian but was quickly dismissed because the...
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