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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 ]
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 ...
ГЭ-245. The Flight into Egypt is an oil painting usually attributed to the Venetian Renaissance master Titian. This very early work by Titian was made in about 1508 or 1509. The painting is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. [1] A religious landscape painting, its "bold brushwork and exhilarating use of ...
Dresden Venus (c. 1510–11), traditionally attributed to Giorgione but for which Titian completed at least the landscape.. The Venus of Urbino (also known as Reclining Venus) [1] is an oil painting by Italian painter Titian, depicting a nude young woman, traditionally identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace.
The Pardo Venus, Louvre, 196 x 385 cm. 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 ...
Pesaro Madonna. The Pesaro Madonna (Italian: Pala Pesaro) (better known as the Madonna di Ca' Pesaro) is a painting by the late Italian Renaissance master Titian, commissioned by Jacopo Pesaro, whose family acquired in 1518 the chapel in the Frari Basilica in Venice for which the work was painted, and where it remains today.
1523–1526. Medium. oil on canvas. Dimensions. 175 cm × 193 cm (69 in × 76 in) Location. Museo del Prado, Madrid. The Bacchanal of the Andrians or The Andrians is an oil painting by Titian. It is signed " TICIANUS F. [aciebat] " and is dated to 1523–1526.
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.