An essay by Xavier F.
She lives in New York City..
The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim, a Fulbright, and a Director\'s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, she is a former president of PEN American Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Her works of nonfiction include Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer.
About author(s): Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction, including Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award.
Here the artist conveys his friend\'s intellectual power through the keen, forceful head and his worldliness through the solid, weighty mass of the richly robed figure.
He was on intimate terms with Titian, who painted at least three portraits of him.
Among Aretino\'s friends and patrons were some of the most prominent figures of his time, several of whom gave him gold chains such as the one he wears in this portrait.
Little is known of his early years, but by 1527 he had settled permanently in Venice.
Author of lives of saints, scurrilous verses, comedies, tragedies, and innumerable letters, Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) attained considerable wealth and influence, in part through literary flattery and blackmail.
Salomon, Frick Curator, paired with a contribution by author Francine Prose bring to life one of Titian\'s most personal and revealing portraits.
An essay by Xavier F
