The 648 Artworks of Tiziano Vecellio Titian

Discover the Masterpiece at Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice

The Assumption of the Virgin, painted in 1516-1518 by Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), is a breathtaking masterpiece that serves as the altarpiece for the high altar at Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, Italy.

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A Masterpiece of High Renaissance Art

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A Masterpiece of Renaissance Art

The Assumption of the Virgin, also known as 'La Assunta', is a stunning oil painting created by the renowned Venetian artist Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) between 1516 and 1518. This masterpiece is housed in its original location, the Basilica di Sant...

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The Gospels of Henry the Lion (Evangeliar Heinrichs des Löwen) was illuminated at Helmarshausen Abbey for Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony (1142-1195), cousin of Frederick Barbarossa.The manuscript went to Prague in the late fourteenth century in the reign of Emperor Charles IV, where in 1594 it was g...

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Francesco Solimena was greatly admired by the Venetian painters of the eighteenth century, especially by Piazzetta and the young Giambattista Tiepolo, for his vigorous naturalism, marked by bold chiaroscuro contrasts and by rich, intense colours, which were the result of the influence on the Neapoli...

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Born in Rome, the son of one Pietro Pippi, and later named for his birthplace, Raphael's pupil Giulio Romano settled in Mantua in 1524, and assumed an important and versatile role there. Besides building and decorating the Palazzo del Tè, he constructed roads and fortresses, created theatrical sets ...

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'This painting belongs to the category of vanitas still lifes, which contain objects intended to cause the viewer to reflect on the inevitability of mortality and the consequent foolishness of all human ambition. They include a skull wreathed in straw, an hourglass, an extinguished pipe and tapers, ...

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'Steen was a storyteller with a passion for drawing moral conclusions in his numerous pictures based on the Scripture, old proverbs, aphorisms, and emblems. Much of Steen's moralizing is based upon familiar platitudes. 'Easy come, easy go' was a favourite. He frequently includes an inscription in hi...

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Francesco Venier (1490-1556) was elected Doge on 11 June 1554. He reigned for scarcely two years, until 2 June 1556. This portrait is an excellent example of the way Titian used colour during his late period. The picture does not break up into countless colours. Only in the garment is there a fine p...

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'The bronze crucifix made in the middle of the eleventh century for Herimann, Archbishop of Cologne, has on its front face the effigy of Christ. Affixed to this effigy is a head made of an intensely blue stone. On closer examination the head, with its idealised features and soft modeling, obviously ...

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This cup was made from a drawing by John Flaxman. The design is taken from the description of a drinking cup by the Greek poet Theocritus (c. 300-260 BC) in his First Idyll. On one side is a maiden with two youth competing for her favour. The other side shows a fisherman and a boy seated on a wall.P...

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'Like so many of Titian's other works, it is likely that this portrait is an idealized portrait of female beauty, and not a precise depiction of any one person. This is corroborated by the Duke of Urbino, who, in a letter he wrote on May 2nd 1536, simply described it as the ''lady in the blue dress'...

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