Titian

1490–1576 · Republic of Venice · High Renaissance, Italian Renaissance

Tiziano Vecellio, Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( TISH-ən), was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting, he was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Wikipedia

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Rich, glowing colour — deep reds, warm flesh, Venetian blue skies — built in layers, with loose, open brushwork in his later pictures.

195 works in the quiz. Play a round on Titian — not whether it is theirs, but which one.

Works

“Venus of Urbino”, 1538 — Uffizi Gallery
“Sleeping Venus”, 1509 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Sacred and Profane Love”, 1514 — Borghese Collection
“Venus with a Mirror”, 1555 — National Gallery of Art
“Equestrian Portrait of Charles V”, 1548 — Museo del Prado
“Bacchus and Ariadne”, 1520–1523 — National Gallery
“The Rape of Europa”, 1559–1562 — Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
“Assumption of the Virgin”, 1517 — Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
“Tarquin and Lucretia”, 1571 — Fitzwilliam Museum
“Danaë”
“The Flaying of Marsyas”, 1573 — Kroměříž Archdiocesan Museum
“Woman with a Mirror”, 1515 — Louvre
“Danaë”, 1560–1565 — Museo del Prado
“Pastoral Concert”, 1510–1511 — Louvre
“Diana and Actaeon”, 1557 — National Gallery
“The Feast of the Gods”, 1529
“Flora”, 1517 — Uffizi Gallery
“Pope Paul III and His Grandsons”, 1546 — Museo di Capodimonte
“The Bacchanal of the Andrians”, 1523 — Museo del Prado
“Pietà”, 1575 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“Allegory of Prudence”, 1550 — National Gallery
“Penitent Magdalene”, 1563 — Hermitage Museum
“The Crowning with Thorns”, 1542 — Louvre
“Venus and Adonis”, 1554 — Museo del Prado
“Diana and Callisto”, 1557 — National Gallery
“The Tribute Money”, 1516 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Venus Anadyomene”, 1520 — National Galleries of Scotland
“Pesaro Madonna”, 1522 — Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
“The Fall of Man”, 1550 — Museo del Prado
“Portrait of Charles V”, 1548 — Bavarian State Painting Collections
“La Bella”, 1537 — Palazzo Pitti
“Portrait of Charles V with a Dog”, 1533 — Museo del Prado
“Perseus and Andromeda”, 1554 — Wallace Collection
“Jupiter and Antiope”, 1551 — Louvre
“Portrait of Gerolamo (?) Barbarigo”, 1510 — National Gallery
“Mars, Venus and Amor”, 1550 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“The Death of Actaeon”, 1567 — National Gallery
“Portrait of Isabella d'Este”, 1535 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“The Three Ages of Man”, 1513 — Orleans Collection
“Violante”, 1515 — Kunsthistorisches Museum

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