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The Rape of Europa (Titian) The Rape of Europa. (Titian) The Rape of Europa is a painting by the Venetian artist Titian, painted ca. 1560–1562. It is in the permanent collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts. The oil-on-canvas painting measures 178 by 205 centimetres (70 in × 81 in).
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 ]
Danaë, 1544–1546. The original version in Naples, 120 cm × 172 cm. National Museum of Capodimonte [1] The Wellington Collection (London) version, now agreed to be the one sent to Philip II of Spain. Before restoration. Here, an aged maid has replaced Cupid, while the cloth covering Danaë's upper thigh is absent, leaving her naked.
A sure connection and influence, then, would be Titian's representation of the same Ovidian story. While the influences of Titian's Europa (1560–62) are recognizable, Rembrandt's work is unique. Both pieces reflects the heightened drama of the piece, but Titian's work is more violent in nature. [23]
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.
Tarquin and Lucretia. Tarquin and Lucretia is an oil painting by Titian completed in 1571, when the artist was in his eighties, for Philip II of Spain. It is signed, and considered to have been finished entirely by Titian himself. It is one of a series of great works from Titian's last years, [1] but unlike some of these, is fully finished.
In Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses Adonis is a beautiful youth, a royal orphan, who spends his time hunting. Venus falls in love with him after one of Cupid's arrows hits her by mistake. They hunt together, but she avoids the fiercer animals, and warns him about them, citing the story of Atalanta.
The Death of Actaeon. The Death of Actaeon is a late work by the Italian Renaissance painter Titian, painted in oil on canvas from about 1559 to his death in 1576 and now in the National Gallery in London. It is very probably one of the two paintings the artist stated he had started and hopes to finish (one of which he calls " Actaeon mauled by ...