Titian - Finestre sull'Arte

London, Marquis of Bath sold Titian's early masterpiece at auction

The Rest during the Flight into Egypt by Titian (Pieve di Cadore, 1488/1490 - Venice, 1576), an early masterpiece returning to the market after 145 years, has been sold at auction at Christie' s by its current owner, Ceawlin Thynn, Marquis of Bath, w...
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Titian's Venus of Urbino, a masterpiece of ambiguity

When one thinks of the goddesses of beauty that adorn the walls of the Uffizi, the best known is surely Botticelli's Venus, which has become something of a symbol of the Renaissance itself, but no less important is another apex of Renaissance paintin...
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London, Titian's twice-stolen early masterpiece goes up for auction at Christie's

An early masterpiece by Titian (Pieve di Cadore, 1488/1490 - Venice, 1576), Rest during the Flight into Egypt, makes its market debut after more than 145 years at Christie's Old Masters Part I auction on July 2, 2024. The work has an estimate of 15-2...
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Supercult. Erwin Panofsky on Titian

The new SuperCult column launches today. Each day excerpts from criticism, art history or contemporary art, texts, descriptions, poems about art by historical and living authors. The two women in Titian's painting closely resemble a pair of personif...
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An exhibition in Venice on the young Titian and his breakthrough year

In 1508, in a Venice dominated by the celebrated Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione, the figure of Titian began to emerge, soon to surpass the fame of both. That, in fact, is a watershed year, not only for Titian's career, but for the whole of Venetian a...
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Restoration of Titian's altarpiece made for his Pieve di Cadore completed.

In Pieve di Cadore (Belluno), the restoration of the Madonna and Child between Saints Titian and Andrew by Titian Vecellio (Pieve di Cadore, c. 1490-Venice, 1576) preserved in the Archdeacon's Church in the great artist's hometown has been completed....
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Open window on a rediscovered Titian

The image of the suffering Christ with the crown of thorns, painted by Titian in 1547 in two identical versions, one on a slate slab given to the Habsburg emperor Charles V, now in the Prado (Fig. 1), the other a Christmas gift for his friend Pietro ...
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Titian's Averoldi Polyptych, "la migliore pictura ch'el facesse mai"

Not the Venus of Urbino, not theAmor sacro e amor profano: it was the Averoldi Polyptych, a large oil-on-poplar-wood altarpiece, the work that Titian Vecellio loved more than any of his other creations. Or at least that is what Alfonso I d'Es...
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