David Rosand

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David Rosand (September 6, 1938 – August 8, 2014) was an American art historian, university professor, and writer. He focused on Italian Renaissance art and was especially known for his work on Venice and the painter Titian.

Education and early life
- Rosand was born in Brooklyn and attended Brooklyn Technical High School.
- He studied at Columbia College, where he was an editor and cartoonist for the Jester, and graduated in 1959.
- He earned his PhD at Columbia University in 1965, with part of his dissertation supported by a Fulbright scholarship to study in Italy.
- In 1961, he married Ellen Fineman, who became a renowned musicologist.

Honors and awards
- 1961: Fulbright fellowship for the study of the Renaissance in Venice.
- 1974: Guggenheim Fellowship for research on Venetian painting.
- 1997: Great Teacher Award from the Columbia College Graduates.
- 2007: Renaissance Society of America, Paul Oskar Kristeller Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Career
- Rosand began teaching at Columbia in 1964 and later became the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, eventually attaining emeritus status.
- He helped organize a 2008 symposium at Columbia to celebrate his work and retirement.
- He also contributed to the field through roles with the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) and Save Venice Inc.

Personal life and family
- Rosand died in 2014 at age 75 in Manhattan, New York.
- He was married to Ellen Rosand for 53 years and had two sons, including Jonathan Rosand, a professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.

Selected works
- Titian and the Venetian Woodcut (1976)
- Titian (1978); French edition Titien: L’art plus fort que la nature (1993)
- Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto (1982; rev. ed. 1997)
- 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, 2011)
- Véronese (2012)

Rosand’s work produced a large body of scholarship—approximately 80-plus works in 170-plus publications across eight languages—well regarded for deep insights into Venetian art and the Renaissance.