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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 ...
This painting was done for Alessandro Farnese, but a later variant was produced for Philip II, for whom Titian painted many of his most important mythological paintings. Although Michelangelo adjudged this piece deficient from the point of view of drawing, Titian and his studio produced several versions for other patrons.
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The painting is a development of Titian's compositions with a reclining female nude in the Venetian style. After Giorgione 's death in 1510, Titian completed his Dresden Venus , which began the tradition, and around 1534 painted the Venus of Urbino . [ 12 ]
The Emperor Otho, by Robert Van Voerst after the lost painting by Titian The Emperor Titus, by Aegidius Sadeler II. The Eleven Caesars was a series of eleven painted half-length portraits of Roman emperors made by Titian in 1536–1540 for Federico II, Duke of Mantua.
The painting was one of the "poesie" series painted by Titian for Philip II of Spain.With Diana and Callisto and Diana and Actaeon, both now shared by London and Edinburgh; it was one of three Titian poesie given by Philip V of Spain to the French ambassador, the Duke of Gramont, who in turn presented them to Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France from 1715 to 1723.
Titian had to execute two or three large pictures, which should represent Tantalus, [a] Sisyphus and Tityus. [ b ] Two of them were painted in the first half of 1549; for they already adorned the Great Hall of the Summer Palace of Binche , for which the Queen evidently had destined them, in the August of the same year when Philip was her guest ...
Both paintings belong to a group of large-scale mythological paintings inspired by the Metamorphoses and referred to by Titian himself as ‘poesie’, the visual equivalent of poetry, which he began producing for Philip II of Spain in 1551 [4] and which also include Danaë (many versions, the original, the first for Philip is in Apsley House ...