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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 ...
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 ]
Ancient Egyptian literature has been preserved on a wide variety of media. This includes papyrus scrolls and packets, limestone or ceramic ostraca, wooden writing boards, monumental stone edifices and coffins. Texts preserved and unearthed by modern archaeologists represent a small fraction of ancient Egyptian literary material.
It is as if Titian in these human forms would symbolise the struggles of the forces of nature. In drawing the masses of rock the remembrance of the mountains of his early home no doubt assisted him. [9] Charles Ricketts describes the two surviving pictures by Titian: In these Titian reverts to the bold foreshortening of his Santo Spirito ...
The Early Dynastic Period, also known as Archaic Period or the Thinite Period (from Thinis, the hometown of its rulers), [ 1 ] is the era of ancient Egypt that immediately follows the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in c.3150 BC. It is generally taken to include the First Dynasty and the Second Dynasty, lasting from the end of the ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...