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Mar 16, 2020 · Location: Level 2. Titian’s sensuous interpretation of Classical myths of love, temptation, and punishment. In 1551, Prince Philip of Spain, the future King Philip II, commissioned Titian, the most famous painter in Europe, to produce a group of paintings showing Classical myths primarily taken from the Roman poet Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’.
- Titian’s ‘Poesie’: The Commission
The ageing Titian met the 21-year-old Prince Philip through...
- Titian: Europe's Most Wanted
Titian had one of the longest careers of any artist; he was...
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- Mary Beard on Titian and Ovid
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The ageing Titian met the 21-year-old Prince Philip through Philip's father Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain who was already Titian's patron. The concept of a thematic group, or cycle, of large paintings, was probably conceived when Titian and Philip met for the first time in Milan in 1548, and subsequently at the Imperial Diet ...
Mar 24, 2020 · That painting is in a revelatory one-room show called “Titian: Love Desire Death,” organized by Matthias Wivel for the National Gallery in London, where it is scheduled to run through June 14 ...
Titian: Women, Myth & Power makes its final, and only US, stop at the ISGM from August 12, 2021, through January 2, 2022.
Titian had one of the longest careers of any artist; he was still painting well into his 70s. He was born and spent his early years in Pieve di Cadore, a town in the foothills of the Dolomites, north of Venice. He moved to Venice itself in around 1500, aged about 10. He never lost touch with Pieve and often spent his summers there; the region ...
The National Gallery is extending its opening hours to 6pm daily* from Wednesday 22 July, as the next step in its reopening after lockdown. This will allow more people to see the nation’s paintings in person and visit the universally acclaimed Titian: Love, Desire, Death exhibition.
