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Titian, Isabella d’Este (Isabella in Black) (detail), c. 1536, oil on canvas, 102.4 cm x 64.7 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum) This image is a lie, or at the very least, a half-truth. Painted by the Venetian artist Titian around 1536, the work is a portrait of Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua and wife of the ruler Francesco I Gonzaga.
The oeuvre of Titian was subject to a number of shifts in import and sensibility over the course of his career. Whereas the bacchanals, painted for the duke of Alfonso d’Este’s studio in Ferrara, were for the most part joyous and inflected with a certain youthful fervor, during the 1550s Titian worked under the patronage of King Philip II.
Titian. Often hailed as a modern artist, with impressionistic tendencies, Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian, has been revered for centuries as a pioneering painter. Born in northern Italy in the Dolomite mountain range, Titian lived and worked during most of his career in Venice, the capital of the Venetian Republic, that had proven itself to ...
Perhaps Titian ’s letter was meant simply to flatter, but his words—and this painting—point to the powerful role played by Renaissance patrons. To modern sensibilities it seems unthinkable that anyone would order significant parts of a work by Giovanni Bellini —father of the Venetian Renaissance—painted over, but that is just what Alfonso d’Este did.
Titian Italian. ca. 1565–70. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 608. Venus, the goddess of love, interrupts her music making to be crowned with a wreath of flowers by Cupid. An admiring, well-dressed youth playing the lute—the quintessential instrument for love madrigals—gazes at her raptly. In the background nymphs and satyrs ...
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio, known in English as Titian, was a Venetian painter during the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, 'from Cadore', taken from his native region.
Aug 12, 2021 · Titian: Women, Myth & Power. Through Jan. 2 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, (617) 566-1401, gardnermuseum.org. Holland Cotter is the co-chief art critic. He writes on a wide range ...
