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Titian

[Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1485-1576]

• Also known as:  Tiziano Vecellio
Titien
Tizian
• Relationships: Studied under Gentile and Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione.
Titian's students included El Greco, Tintoretto, Paris Bordone, Parrasio Micheli, Damiano Mazza and Polidoro Lanzani.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Titian at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
7 works by Titian

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
8 works by Titian

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Danae

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
5 works online by Titian

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Alfonso d'Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, in Armor with a Page

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
5 works

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Titian at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Pastoral Concert, ca.1509

Titian at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Entombment of Christ, ca.1520

Titian at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Woman with a Mirror, 1512-15

Titian at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Man with a Glove, ca.1520

Titian at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Battle of Spoleto, drawing, ca.1538

Titian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
5 works by Titian online

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
The Temptation of Christ, ca.1525-30

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Titian at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
20 works by Titian

National Gallery, London, UK

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Study for the figure of Saint Sebastian of the altar piece in SS. Nazaro e Celso

The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
4 works online

Vatican Museums, Vatican City
Madonna with Child and Saints

Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)  
Tarquinius und Lucretia, ca.1570-76

Art Fund for UK Museums
5 works

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Portrait of Philip Ii

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Adoration of the Magi

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
"When is a Titian a repe-Titian?"

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
5 works by or related to the artist

Dresden State Art Collections

Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Parma, Italy
Sacra conversazione

Frick Collection, New York City
Pietro Aretino
Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap
, 1516

Galleria Borghese, Rome
Sacred and Profane Love

Galleria Borghese, Rome
Ritratto di violinista

Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  
Salomè con la testa del Battista

Galleria G. Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venice (in Italian)  
Venere allo specchio

Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (mostly in Italian)  
La presentazione della Vergine al Tempio
San Giovanni Battista


Glasgow Museums, Scotland   NEW!
The adulteress brought before Christ

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!
Trees Near a Pool of Water, drawing, ca.1530

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Madonna and Child with a Female Saint and the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Marche Region Museums, Italy
Apparition of the Virgin

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)  

Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, France

Musei Civici di Ascoli Piceno, Marche Region, Italy (in Italian)  
San Francesco riceve le stimmate

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)  

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Girl Before a Mirror

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam   NEW!
Boy with dogs in a landsape, ca.1565

National Brukenthal Museum, Romania
Ecce Homo

National Gallery of Australia
Portrait of Pietro Aretino

National Gallery of Australia
Sacred conversation: Mother and Child, St Catherine

National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)  

National Museums Liverpool, UK
Supper at Emmaus

New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
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Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy (in Italian)  
Cardinal Pietro Bembo, ca.1545

Palazzo Ducale, Venice (in Italian)   NEW!  
La Vergine col Bambino e due angeli

Palazzo Ducale, Venice (in Italian)   NEW!  
Il doge Antonio Grimani davanti alla Fede, 1575-76 (detail)

Palazzo Ducale, Venice (in Italian)   NEW!  
San Cristoforo, 1523-24

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  

Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto

Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan (in Italian)  
Several paintings

Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome (in Italian)  
Battesimo di Cristo

Pinacoteca Civica Francesco Podesti, Ancona, Italy (in Italian)  
Madonna col bambino (Pala Gozzi)

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (in Italian)  
Gesù Cristo e il buon ladrone

Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
La Sultana Rossa, 1550s

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Christ Shown to the People (Ecce Homo), ca.1570-76

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection
3 paintings

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection
The Adoration of the Child, ca.1507-08

State Museums of Berlin   NEW!

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Many works online

Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  
Adoration of the Magi

Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  
Click "Immagini" to see 2 large images from a 2004-2005 exhibition

The British Museum, London, UK   NEW!

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Perseus and Andromeda, ca.1553-62
Venus and Cupid, ca.1510-15

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Virtual Uffizi

Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center

Artchive  

Artonline

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

CGFA  

Insecula

Web Gallery of Art  

WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Aiwaz Panopticon   NEW!

Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)  

Artyzm

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

ImageNETion

Olga's Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
The Feast of the Gods

PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
Venus with a Mirror

The Athenaeum  
12 works online

University of Leipzig, Germany  

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Web Sites About the Artist:
ArtBank Old Master
A very extensive overview of the artist's work (a free sample from what is otherwise a paid-access reference site). Click "Download Opera Omnia" for the data, in the form of a PDF document.

 
Other Web Sites:
Christie's
Venus and Adonis

Culture and History of Venice

Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail   NEW!
Five Figures: Embarquement

The Modernist Journals Project   NEW!

WebExhibits
Investigating Feast of the Gods, a painting with sections by Bellini, Dosso Dossi and Titian

Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Titian
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

ARTnews
"Disharmony in the Concert"

Frieze Magazine   NEW!
Review (from issue 114): Late Titian

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Pietá, ca.1575-76

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Giacoma Doria, ca.1531

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Vendramin Family, 1543-47

The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Lucian Freud on Titian's Diana and Callisto and Diana and Actaeon

Time Magazine
"An Appetite for Human Character", 1990 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"Brush with Genius. Now playing in Paris", 1993 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
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Detail from Bacchus and Ariadne
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Portrait of a Noblewoman
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The Venus of Urbino
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Mars, Venus, and Amor
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