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v. t. e. Tiziano Vecellio (Italian: [titˈtsjaːno veˈtʃɛlljo]; c. 1488/90[1] – 27 August 1576), [2] Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian (/ ˈtɪʃən / ⓘ TISH-ən), was an Italian Renaissance painter, [a] the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. [4]
Gemäldegalerie (Berlin) Venus and Adonis - many different versions, with varying contributions by Titian himself. See ones in the Prado and New York above. c. 1560. 187 × 184 cm. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (Rome) Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria. c. 1560. 127.8 × 169.7 cm.
The version now in Madrid's Museo del Prado is generally agreed to be the earliest of the surviving versions. Although not certainly documented until 1626, [11] it is generally regarded as the painting documented as despatched to King Philip II of Spain in London (he was then married to Mary Tudor, and in fact not yet King of Spain, but King of England) by Titian in September 1554, as ...
1548–1549. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 237 cm × 216 cm (93 in × 85 in) Location. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Sisyphus (Spanish: Sísifo) is an oil painting by the Venetian master Titian, made in 1548 or 1549. It is in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
Loh, Maria H., Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art, 2007, Getty Publications, ISBN 089236873X, 9780892368730, google books (full view) "NGA": "Italy to Lend Prized Titian Painting to National Gallery of Art to Celebrate Commencement of EU Presidency", June 19, 2014, National Gallery of Art press release
The painting was one of the "poesie" series painted by Titian for Philip II of Spain.With Diana and Callisto and Diana and Actaeon, both now shared by London and Edinburgh; it was one of three Titian poesie given by Philip V of Spain to the French ambassador, the Duke of Gramont, who in turn presented them to Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France from 1715 to 1723.
185 cm × 202 cm (73 in × 80 in) Location. National Gallery and Scottish National Gallery, London and Edinburgh. Diana and Actaeon is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian, finished in 1556–1559, and is considered amongst Titian's greatest works. It portrays the moment in which the hunter Actaeon bursts in where the goddess ...
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice. The Pietà is one of the last paintings by the Italian master-painter Titian, and in its final, extended state it was left incomplete at his death in 1576, to be completed by Palma Giovane. Titian had intended it to hang over his grave, and the two stages of painting were to make it fit in two different churches.