David Rosand (September 6, 1938 – August 8, 2014) was an American

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, university professor and writer. He died on August 8, 2014 from

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.Columbia University
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, and was known for his scholarly work on

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and Venetian artists, in particular

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Education and early life

Rosand was born in Brooklyn; and graduated from

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. He attended Columbia College where he was an editor and cartoonist for the

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. He received his undergraduate degree from

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in 1959.Boss-Bicak, Shira
'David Rosand ’59’s 'Gift' of Casa Muraro in Venice,"
''Columbia Today.'' May/June 2008. In 1961, he married Vassar graduate Ellen Fineman, better known as the distinguished

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Ellen Rosand Ellen Rosand is an American musicologist, historian, and opera critic who specializes in Italian music and poetry of the 16th through 18th centuries. Her work has been particularly focused on the music and culture of Venice and Italian opera of the ...

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

Honors and awards

* 1961 —

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for the study of the Renaissance in Venice. * 1974 —

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for the study of "pictorial structure and narrative mode in Venetian paintings of the Renaissance." * 1997 — Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. * 2007 —

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Award for Lifetime Achievement

Career

Rosand began teaching at Columbia in 1964, becoming the

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Professor of Art History until his retirement when he was named professor

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. 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. Complementing his career as an

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, he served on the Art Advisory Council of the

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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. He is survived by two sons, including Jonathan Rosand, Professor of

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Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about David Rosand,

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encompasses roughly 80+ works in 170+ publications in 8 languages and 9,000+ library holdings. * ''Titian and the Venetian Woodcut'' (1976) * ''Titian'', New York: Harry N. Abrams (1978); a lavishly illustrated adaptation into French: ** , coll. «

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» (nº 169), série Arts. Paris: Éditions Gallimard (1993; translated by Jeanne Bouniort) *** , 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

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* ''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) * ''Véronese'' (2012)

Notes

References

* Cranston, Jodi.
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. ''Venetian Painting Matters: Essays in Honor of David Rosand.'' New York: Brepols.

External links

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online streaming-audio lecture
"Things Never Seen: Graphic Fantasy and the Dreaming Draftsman" (October 26, 2009)
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