Mark Tully
| Biography: Mark Tully graduated with a BA from UCD in 1999 and returned to UCD in 2016 to study for a first-class MA in Art History (awarded in 2017). He has since returned in order to work towards a PhD. |
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| Research: Mark is currently researching the life and career of the sixteenth-century Venetian dilettante painter, Parrasio Micheli. Born as the illegitimate son of a member of a respected patrician family, Parrasio entered life with a degree of comfort and liberty many did not have. As a protege first of Titian and then Paolo Veronese, Parrasio had great professional success and produced works for the new Marciana Library and the Ducal Palace. By the 1570s, he felt confident enough to launch a campaign to oust Titian from his secure position in the patronage of Philip II of Spain. Despite this, not long after his death his reputation lay in tatters, maligned as painter who had acquired his success from copying the designs of others and buying good reviews by entertaining critics. What went wrong? Is the real Parrasio the high-flyer from his career suggests or is he the paint-by-numbers hack portrayed by later critics? Has our taste and view of painting changed so much that we cannot view such works as his as they were seen at the time? What does he, and similar painters, tell us of the time in question, away from the blinding lights of 'Great Artists' such as Titian and Veronese? These are the questions Mark's thesis is trying to answer. |
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| Keywords: Venice; Venetian painting; Sixteenth-century: Parrasio Micheli; Titian; Veronese; Mannerism |
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| Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Philip Cottrell |
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