Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1546 Oil on canvas, 99 x 90 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Lorenzo Lotto‘s various depictions of the penitent Saint Jerome span early versions influenced by Albrecht Dürer and Giovanni Bellini (Musée…
El Greco (1541-1614) Adoración del Nombre de Jesús (The Adoration of the Name of Jesus) late 1570s Oil and egg tempera on pine, 55.1 × 33.8 cm National Gallery, London This picture is closely related to a larger work of the…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione nel sepolcro (The Entombment) 1559 Oil on canvas, 136 x 174.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Titian represented the Gospel account of the burial of Christ (Matthew 27: 57-61; Mark 15: 44-47; Luke 23: 50-54; John 19: 38-42)…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Filippo II in armatura (Portrait of Philip II in Armour) 1551 Oil on canvas, 193 cm x 111 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Philip II was Titian’s most important patron, and the pair’s artistic relationship was…
(1527–1598) Felipe el Prudente King of Spain (1556–1598) King of Portugal (1581–1598) Philip II in Art: El Greco (1541-1614) Adoración del Nombre de Jesús late 1570s National Gallery, London Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Filippo II in armatura 1551 Museo del Prado, Madrid …
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Sisifo (Sisyphus) 1548–1549 Oil on canvas, 237 x 216 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The literary source for the Furies is Ovid‘s Metamorphoses (IV, 447-464) and Virgil‘s Aeneid (VI, 457-8), which recounts the eternal sufferings in Hades of Tityus,…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Isabella del Portogallo (Portrait of Isabella of Portugal) 1548 Oil on canvas, 117 cm x 98 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The portraits that Titian painted of Isabella (1503-1539), daughter of King Manuel of Portugal and wife…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna tra i santi Giorgio e Dorotea (Virgin and Child with St. Dorothy and St. George) c.1515–1518 Oil on panel, 86 x 130 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The authorship, dating and iconography of this work are all controversial. It…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ecce Homo 1547 Oil on slate, 69 x 56 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Although we do not know when Titian first treated this subject, it was probably in 1535, when he painted a Christ for Federico Gonzaga following a…
(c.1488–1576) Tiziano Vecellio di Gregorio The artist’s works: Adorazione dei Magi 1500s Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Adorazione di Gesù Bambino c.1506 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Jacopo Pesaro presentato a san Pietro da papa Alessandro VI 1506–1510 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp…