David Rosand

David Rosand (September 6, 1938 – August 8, 2014) was an American art historian, university professor and writer. He died on August 8, 2014, from cardiac amyloidosis.[1] Rosand specialized in Italian Renaissance art,[1] and was known for his scholarly work on Venice and Venetian artists, in particular Titian.

Education and early life

Rosand was born in Brooklyn; and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School. He attended Columbia College where he was an editor and cartoonist for the Jester. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1959.[2]

In 1961, he married Vassar graduate Ellen Fineman, better known as the distinguished musicologist Ellen Rosand.[3]

Columbia awarded Rosand his PhD in 1965.[1] His dissertation was supported in part by a Fulbright scholarship for study in Italy.[2]

Honors and awards

Career

Rosand began teaching at Columbia in 1964, becoming the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History until his retirement when he was named professor emeritus.[1]

Rosand was honored at a one-day symposium at Columbia University in October 2008. The event brought together Professor Rosand’s colleagues and former graduate students to present research and personal reflections on the occasion of his seventieth birthday and retirement. The symposium was organized around papers on a wide variety of topics related to Professor Rosand’s past and current research.[5]

Complementing his career as an academic, he served on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR)[6] and was a board member of Save Venice Inc.

Personal life and family

In 2014, he died at the age of 75 in Manhattan, New York.[7] He was married for 53 years to musicologist Ellen Rosand and is survived by two sons, including Jonathan Rosand, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.[8]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about David Rosand, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 80+ works in 170+ publications in 8 languages and 9,000+ library holdings.[9]

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  • Titian and the Venetian Woodcut (1976)
  • Titian, New York: Harry N. Abrams (1978); a lavishly illustrated adaptation into French:
    • Titien : « L’art plus fort que la nature », coll. « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 169), série Arts. Paris: Éditions Gallimard (1993; translated by Jeanne Bouniort)[10]
      • Tiziano: “l’arte più potente della natura”, coll. «Universale Electa/Gallimard» (nº 25), serie Arte. Trieste: Electa/Gallimard (1993; translated by Maurizio Vitta)
  • Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto (1st ed., 1982 [Yale]; rev. ed., 1997 [Cambridge])
  • Robert Motherwell on Paper: Drawings, Prints, Collages (1997)
  • The Meaning of the Mark: Leonardo and Titian (1988)
  • The Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State (2001)
  • Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation (2002)
  • The Invention of Painting in America (2004)
  • "Veronese's Magdalene and Pietro Aretino," The Burlington Magazine 153 (2011)
  • Véronese (2012)

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Columbia University: Rosand, faculty bio notes
  2. ^ a b c d Boss-Bicak, Shira. 'David Rosand ’59’s 'Gift' of Casa Muraro in Venice," Columbia Today. May/June 2008.
  3. ^ "David Rosand marries Miss Ellen Fineman," New York Times. June 19, 1961.
  4. ^ "$4.1 Million to Go to 342 Scholars ," New York Times. April 14, 1974.
  5. ^ Symposium in Honor of David Rosen, October 17, 2008.
  6. ^ International Foundation for Art Research, about IFAR
  7. ^ Cotter, Holland (August 28, 2014). "David Rosand, an Art History Scholar Whose Heart Was in Venice, Dies at 75". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  8. ^ Cotter, Holland (2014-08-29). "David Rosand, an Art History Scholar Whose Heart Was in Venice, Dies at 75". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  9. ^ WorldCat Identities Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine: David Rosand
  10. ^ "Titien : "L'art plus fort que la nature"". ressources.louvrelens.fr (in French). 1993. Retrieved 15 June 2020. Est une traduction de : Titian.

References

  • Cranston, Jodi. (under contract). Venetian Painting Matters: Essays in Honor of David Rosand. New York: Brepols.