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. In 1961, he married Vassar graduate Ellen Fineman, better known as the distinguished musicologist Ellen Rosand. 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 — Fulbright fellowship for the study of the Renaissance in Venice. • 1997 — Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. • 2007 — Renaissance Society of America, Paul Oskar Kristeller Award for Lifetime Achievement ==Career==

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