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.
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]
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]
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)
