David Rosand

Rosand was born in Brooklyn; and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School. He attended Columbia College where he was an editor and cartoonist for the Jester. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1959.Boss-Bicak, Shira. [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/may_jun08/alumni_profiles '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 musicologist Ellen Rosand.[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0B17FA3A5B147A93CBA8178DD85F458685F9&scp=1&sq=david%20rosand&st=cse "David Rosand marries Miss Ellen Fineman,"] New York Times. June 19, 1961.

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

• 1961 — Fulbright fellowship for the study of the Renaissance in Venice.
• 1974 — Guggenheim fellowship for the study of "pictorial structure and narrative mode in Venetian paintings of the Renaissance."[https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F0071FFD3B5F107A93C6A8178FD85F408785F9 "$4.1 Million to Go to 342 Scholars ,"] New York Times. April 14, 1974.
• 1997 — Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates.
• 2007 — Renaissance Society of America, Paul Oskar Kristeller Award for Lifetime Achievement

Rosand began teaching at Columbia in 1964, becoming the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History until his retirement when he was named professor emeritus.

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.[http://www.collegeart.org/opportunities/listing/2677/ Symposium in Honor of David Rosen], October 17, 2008.

Complementing his career as an academic, he served on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research [http://www.ifar.org/ (IFAR)][http://www.ifar.org/ International Foundation for Art Research], [http://www.ifar.org/about.php about IFAR] and was a board member of Save Venice Inc.

In 2014, he died at the age of 75 in Manhattan, New York.{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=August 28, 2014 |title=David Rosand, an Art History Scholar Whose Heart Was in Venice, Dies at 75 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/arts/artsspecial/david-rosand-an-art-history-scholar-whose-heart-was-in-venice-dies-at-75.html |via=NYTimes.com}} 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.{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=2014-08-29 |title=David Rosand, an Art History Scholar Whose Heart Was in Venice, Dies at 75 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/arts/artsspecial/david-rosand-an-art-history-scholar-whose-heart-was-in-venice-dies-at-75.html |access-date=2022-04-10 |issn=0362-4331}}

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.[http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230150412/http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm |date=December 30, 2010 }}: [http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n80-162416 David Rosand]

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• Titian and the Venetian Woodcut (1976)
• Titian, New York: Harry N. Abrams (1978); a lavishly illustrated adaptation into French:
• {{lang|fr|Titien : « L’art plus fort que la nature »}}, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 169), série Arts. Paris: Éditions Gallimard (1993; translated by Jeanne Bouniort){{cite web |url=http://ressources.louvrelens.fr/EXPLOITATION/doc/ALOES/0005257 |title=Titien : "L'art plus fort que la nature" |author= |date=1993 |website=ressources.louvrelens.fr |language=fr |access-date=15 June 2020 |quote=Est une traduction de : Titian.}}
• {{lang|it|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)
• The Invention of Painting in America (2004)
• "Veronese's Magdalene and Pietro Aretino," [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290884111_Veronese%27s_Magdalene_and_Pietro_Aretino The Burlington Magazine 153 (2011)]
• Véronese (2012)

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• Cranston, Jodi. ([https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:kASMeyZmavoJ:www.bu.edu/ah/faculty/cvs/cranston.pdf+David+Rosand&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShoq8eAL_V94pwMHns_D3LGtbNXgrSzs7EdfwLO6hD-InxL9u5Rtg9hGSOvePrnF6CtNdePaG8L_dsgq7iG6PL3SVPrLzhKIifU0GMjASljPYKwAJqsZtslfHN-d5UVYCpSdHat&sig=AHIEtbQx2hUI07Nc-4D_2ZZz5ZKtBIvOlw under contract]). Venetian Painting Matters: Essays in Honor of David Rosand. New York: Brepols.

• Reed College online streaming-audio lecture: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629120240/http://academic.reed.edu/art/events/ostrow/david_rosand.html "Things Never Seen: Graphic Fantasy and the Dreaming Draftsman" (October 26, 2009)]
• Columbia College, Columbia University [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/may_jun08/alumni_profiles Alumni Profiles: "David Rosand ’59’s “Gift” of Casa Muraro in Venice" (May/June 2008)]
• David Rosand on Titian's Brushwork | New York Studio School (1993)   https://youtu.be/jyKHQhDZHpw
• David Rosand on Ekphrasis | New York Studio School (2005)   https://youtu.be/p42I-jZS8lE

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