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Titian paintings on display in the Museo del Prado (from left to right: Danaë and the Shower of Gold, The Worship of Venus, The Bacchanal of the Andrians, and Venus and Adonis) This incomplete list of works by Titian contains representative portraits and mythological and religious works from a large oeuvre that spanned 70 years. (Titian left ...
Bacchus and Ariadne (1522–1523) [1] is an oil painting by Titian. It is one of a cycle of paintings on mythological subjects produced for Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, for the Camerino d'Alabastro – a private room in his palazzo in Ferrara decorated with paintings based on classical texts. An advance payment was given to Raphael, who ...
The Pardo Venus is a painting by the Venetian artist Titian, completed in 1551 and now in the Louvre Museum. It is also known as Jupiter and Antiope, since it seems to show the story of Jupiter and Antiope from Book VI of the Metamorphoses (lines 110-111). It is Titian's largest mythological painting, [1] and was the first major mythological ...
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 ...
Philip II of Spain commissioned a second version, painted in 1549–50, as the first of a series of mythological paintings described by Titian as "poesie" ("poems"). [24] Venus and Adonis , the next to be painted, was designed to be viewed alongside Danaë , although not of the same size. [ 25 ]
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 Diana and her nymphs are bathing.
The Birth of Adonis is an oil on panel painting attributed to Titian, from c. 1506-1508. It is held in the Musei civici, in Padua. It shows the birth of Adonis as depicted in Ovid 's Metamorphoses, [1] forming a pair with The Legend of Polydoros. It originated as part of a cassone, which entered its present home as a legacy from Emo Capodilista ...
Netherlandish copy of Titian's lost portrait of Mary of Hungary (c. 1550) Mary of Austria receiving Charles V in the large hall of Binche Palace, constructed between 1546 and 1548. Drawing by an unknown Flemish artist (c. 1550) On his first visit to Augsburg Titian received a new commission from Charles V's sister, Queen Mary of Hungary.