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. Rosand specialized in Italian Renaissance art,

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

Columbia awarded Rosand his PhD in 1965. 1997 — Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates.

Complementing his career as an academic, he served on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) 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 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.

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.

Titian and the Venetian Woodcut (1976) Titian, New York: Harry N. Abrams (1978); a lavishly illustrated adaptation into French: , coll. « Découvertes Gallimard » (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 [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)