Tag: Italia

Adorazione dei Magi (16th century)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) 16th century Oil on canvas, 141 cm x 219 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adorazione dei Magi 1500s Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland     Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adorazione dei Magi c.1557–1560…

Ritratto di Filippo II in armatura (1551)

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…

Salomè con la testa del Battista (1515)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) 1515 Oil on canvas, 90 x 72 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma This early masterpiece by Titian, which illustrates the terrible biblical episode in a dark…

Salomè con la testa del Battista (c.1550)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 87 x 80 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Salome, an Edomite princess born of Herodias and the wife of Herod Philip…

Venere con organista e cagnolino (c.1550)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere con organista e cagnolino (Venus with an Organist and a Little Dog) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 138 x 222.4 x 3.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In contrast to the paintings created for the Camerino d’Alabastro and the…

Ritratto del Cardinale Pietro Bembo (1539-1540)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto del Cardinale Pietro Bembo (Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo) 1539–1540 Oil on canvas, 94.5 x 76.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) wears the red biretta and cape of a cardinal. At the time Titian painted…

Venere e il suonatore di liuto (1565-1570)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Venere e il suonatore di liuto (Venus and the Lute Player) c.1565–1570 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 209.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Venus, the goddess of love, interrupts her music making to be crowned…

Adamo ed Eva (c.1550)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adamo ed Eva (Adam and Eve) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 240 x 186 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The painting is a faithful visualisation of Genesis 30, 9-19 in which Eve is blamed for accepting the forbidden fruit (although…

Ritratto di cavaliere con orologio (c.1550)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di cavaliere con orologio (Portrait of a Knight with a Clock) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 122 x 101 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The unknown subject of this portrait has been identified, inconclusively, as either Gianello della Torre,…

Sisifo (1548-1549)

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,…