Elenora Gonzaga painted by Titian

Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga is a painting by Venetian artist Titian

quick facts

Artist:	Titian
Artform:	Painting
Date completed:	1538
Genre:	Portrait
Height:	3' 9"
Width:	3' 4"

Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga subject matter

Eleonor Gonzaga

December 31, 1494 - February 13, 1570

Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino was the eldest of the seven children of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, and Isabella d'Este. Her father was a notorious libertine,... and her mother, a gifted patroness of the arts of the late Italian Renaissance. On 25 September 1509, aged just sixteen, she married Francesco Maria I della Rovere, duke of Urbino, son of Giovanni della Rovere, duca di Sora e Senegaglia, and Giovanna da Montefeltro, and nephew of Pope Julius II. Their two sons and three daughters would all have progeny. Eleonora, who was largely responsible for the internal government of Urbino during her husband's exile, was an important patron of the arts in her own right. A princess of the highest culture, she was the friend of Pietro Bembo, Sadolet and Baldassarre Castiglione, as well as the poet Torquato Tasso. Titian painted her once formally , but her face appears to be recognisable in three other Titian paintings of about that time: 'La Bella', 'Girl in the Fur Cloak' and possibly the 'Venus of Urbino' commissioned by her son Guidobaldo.

Artist of Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga

Titian

1485- August 27, 1576

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno , in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth. Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" , Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape... backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art. During the course of his long life, Titian's artistic manner changed drastically but he retained a lifelong interest in color. Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of polychromatic modulations are without precedent in the history of Western art.

 

Titian

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio known in English as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno , in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth. Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" , Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of... color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art. During the course of his long life, Titian's artistic manner changed drastically but he retained a lifelong interest in color. Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of polychromatic modulations are without precedent in the history of Western art.
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quick facts

Birthdate:	1485
Birthplace:	Pieve di Cadore
Date of death:	August 27, 1576
Religion:	Catholicism
Also known as:	Tiziano

Works of art by Titian

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  Venus of Urbino
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  Bacchus and Ariadne
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  Sacred and Profane Love
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  Venus Anadyomene
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  Allegory of Prudence
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  Annunciation
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  The Infant Daughter of Roberto Strozzi
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  Danaë with Nursemaid
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  Portrait of Prince Philip of Spain
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  Assumption of the Virgin
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  Paul III and His Nephews Alessandro and Ottavio Farnese
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  Pesaro Madonna
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  The Feast of the Gods
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  Portrait of the Vendramin Family
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  Diana and Actaeon
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  The Death of Actaeon
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  Self-Portrait
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  Daniele Barbaro
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  La Schiavona
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  Portrait of a Man
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  Diana and Callisto
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  Danaë with Eros
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  Danaë
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  Portrait of Doge Francesco Venier
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  Christ and Mary Magdalene (Noli me tangere)
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  Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese
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  Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga
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  Danaë
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  Equestrian Portrait of Charles V
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  Venus and Adonis
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  Miracle of the Jealous Husband
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  The Crowning with Thorns
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  Punishment of Marsyas
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  St. Mark Enthroned
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  Venus and Adonis
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  Crucifixion
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  Clarice Strozzi
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  Malchiostro Annunciation
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  Man with a Glove
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  Portrait of Vincenzo Mosti
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  Self-Portrait
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  Portrait of Pietro Aretino
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  The Gypsy Madonna
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  Tarquin and Lucretia
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  Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter
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  The Entombment
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  Portrait of Isabella of Portugal
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  Portrait of Jacopo Strada
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  Portrait of Ippolito de' Medici
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  Saint Jerome in Penitence
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  Penitent Magdalene
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  Venus Blindfolding Cupid
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  St Margaret and the Dragon
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  Saint John the Baptist
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  Young Woman in a Black Dress
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  Salome
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  The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
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  Portrait of a Young Englishman
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  The Tribute Money
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  Vanity
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  Portrait of Pope Paul III
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  Saint Sebastian
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  The Entombment
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  Portrait of Charles V with a Dog
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  Balbi Holy Conversation
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  The Bacchanal of the Andrians
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  Saint Jerome in Penitence
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  A Man with a Quilted Sleeve
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  Portrait of Giacomo Doria
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  Flora
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  Penitent Magdalene
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  Portrait of Lavinia Vecellio
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  Portrait of Laura Dianti
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  Noli me tangere
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  The Madonna of the Rabbit
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  Christ Carrying the Cross
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  Pastoral Concert

Art series by Titian

DanaëThe Danaë series comprises at least five oil-on-canvas paintings by the Venetian master Titian, completed between 1553 and 1556. The works are... based on the mythological princess Danaë. According to Ovid she was isolated in a bronze dungeon following a prophecy that her firstborn would eventually kill her father. Although aware of the consequences, Danaë was seduced and became pregnant by Zeus , who, inflamed by lust, descended from Mount Olympus to entice her as a shower of gold. The first version, now in Naples, was painted between 1544-46. Titian executed two later versions on commission from the art-loving Spanish monarch Philip II. Titian and his workshop produced at least five versions of the painting, which vary to degrees. The dog resting at Danaë's side is absent in some versions, while her companion is a god in some and a haggish nursemaid in others. In all, Danaë is a depicted as a voluptuous figure. Her legs are open in all, with her left leg arched; this being a central painterly motif in each.
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Titian Image Gallery

The Death of Actaeon. In Titian's later works, the forms lose their solidity and melt into the lush ...	The Allegory of Age Governed by Prudence (c. 1565--1570) is thought to depict Titian, his son Orazio...
The Flaying of Marsyas, little known until recent decades	Salome, or Judith; this religious work also functions as an idealized portrait of a beauty, a genre ...
Titian's unmatched handling of color is exemplified by his Danaë, one of several mythological painti...	It took Titian two years (1516--1518) to complete the oil painting Assunta, whose dynamic three-tier...
Like so many of his late works, Titian's last painting, the Pietà, is a dramatic scene of suffering ...	This early portrait (c. 1512) was long wrongly believed to be of Ariosto; it is more likely a self-p...

Art galleries featuring Titian

LouvreThe Musée du Louvre —in English, the Louvre Museum or simply The Louvre—is the world's most visited art museum, one of the world's largest museums, and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement .... Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres . The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of antique sculpture. In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years.
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Artworks by Titian featured in the Louvre

Titian Piece Featured	Artform
Man with a Glove	Painting

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Uffizi GalleryThe Uffizi Gallery is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. Building of the palace was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as the offices for the Florentine magistrates — hence the name "uffizi" .... Construction was continued to Vasari's design by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti and ended in 1581. The cortile is so long and narrow, and open to the Arno River at its far end through a Doric screen that articulates the space without blocking it, that architectural historians treat it as the first regularized streetscape of Europe. Vasari, a painter as well as architect, emphasized the perspective length by the matching facades' continuous roof cornices, and unbroken cornices between storeys and the three continuous steps on which the palace-fronts stand. The niches in the piers that alternate with columns were filled with sculptures of famous artists in the 19th century.
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Artworks by Titian featured in the Uffizi Gallery

Titian Piece Featured	Artform
Venus of Urbino	Painting
Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga	Painting

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National Gallery of ScotlandThe Scottish National Gallery is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, in a neoclassical building designed by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859. The gallery houses the Scottish national collection of fine art, including... Scottish and international art from the beginning of the Renaissance up to the start of the 20th century. The origins of Scotland's national collection lie with the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland, founded in 1819. It began to acquire paintings, and in 1828 the Royal Institution building opened on the Mound. In 1826, the Scottish Academy was founded by a group of artists as an offshoot of the Royal Institution, and in 1838 it became the Royal Scottish Academy . A key aim of the RSA was the founding of a national collection. It began to build up a collection and from 1835 rented exhibition space within the Royal Institution building. In the 1840s plans were put in place for a new building to house the RSA in a new building. William Henry Playfair was commissioned to prepare designs, and on 30 August 1850, Prince Albert laid the foundation stone.
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Artworks by Titian featured in the National Gallery of Scotland

Titian Piece Featured	Artform
Diana and Actaeon	Painting
Venus Anadyomene	Painting

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National Gallery, LondonThe National Gallery is an art gallery on Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom.

Artworks by Titian featured in the National Gallery, London

Titian Piece Featured	Artform
Bacchus and Ariadne	Painting
La Schiavona	Painting
The Death of Actaeon	Painting
Portrait of the Vendramin Family	Painting
Allegory of Prudence	Painting

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Hermitage MuseumThe State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display,... comprise nearly three million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since 1990, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky. Out of six buildings of the main museum complex, four, named the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage and New Hermitage, are partially open to the public. The other two are the Hermitage Theatre and the Reserve House.
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Artworks by Titian featured in the Hermitage Museum

Titian Piece Featured	Artform
Danaë	Painting
Penitent Magdalene	Painting

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Museo del PradoThe Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of... Spanish art. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture, it also contains important collections of other types of works. A new, recently opened wing enlarged the display area by about 400 paintings, and it is currently used mainly for temporary expositions. El Prado is one of the most visited sites in the world, and it is considered to be among the greatest museums of art. The large numbers of works by Velázquez and Francisco de Goya , Titian, Rubens and Bosch are among the highlights of the collection. The collection currently comprises around 7,600 paintings, 1,000 sculptures, 4,800 prints and 8,200 drawings, in addition to a large number of other works of art and historic documents.
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Artworks by Titian featured in the Museo del Prado

Titian Piece Featured	Artform
Danaë with Nursemaid	Painting
Portrait of Prince Philip of Spain	Painting
Daniele Barbaro	Painting
Venus and Adonis	Painting
Portrait of Isabella of Portugal	Painting

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National Gallery of ArtThe National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden are a national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was established in 1937 for the people of the United States of... America by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The core collection also includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Brown Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile ever created by Alexander Calder. The Gallery's campus includes the original neoclassical West Building designed by John Russell Pope, which is linked underground to the modern East Building, designed by I. M. Pei, and the 6.1-acre Sculpture Garden.
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Artworks by Titian featured in the National Gallery of Art

Titian Piece Featured	Artform
The Feast of the Gods	Painting
Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese	Painting

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Galleria BorgheseThe Borghese Gallery is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. It is a building that was from the first integral with its gardens, nowadays considered quite separately by tourists as the Villa Borghese gardens. The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part... of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V . The Villa was built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese himself, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa at the edge of Rome. Scipione Borghese was an early patron of Bernini and an avid collector of works by Caravaggio, who is well represented in the collection by his Boy with a Basket of Fruit, St. Jerome, Sick Bacchus and others. Other paintings of note include Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, Raphael's Entombment of Christ and works by Peter Paul Rubens and Federico Barocci. The Casina Borghese lies on the outskirts of seventeenth-century Rome.
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Artworks by Titian featured in the Galleria Borghese

Titian Piece Featured	Artform
Sacred and Profane Love	Painting

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Kunsthistorisches MuseumThe Kunsthistorisches Museum is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term Kunsthistorisches Museum applies to both the institution and the main building. It was opened in 1891 at the same time as the... Naturhistorisches Museum, by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary. The two museums have identical exteriors and face each other across Maria-Theresien-Platz. Both buildings were built between 1872 and 1891 according to plans drawn up by Gottfried Semper and Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer. The two Ringstraße museums were commissioned by the Emperor in order to find a suitable shelter for the Habsburgs' formidable art collection and to make it accessible to the general public. The façade was built of sandstone. The building is rectangular in shape, and topped with a dome that is 60 meters high. The inside of the building is lavishly decorated with marble, stucco ornamentations, gold-leaf, and paintings.
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Artworks by Titian featured in the Kunsthistorisches Museum

Titian Piece Featured	Artform
Danaë	Painting

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Museo Thyssen-BornemiszaThe Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, or in Spanish Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, is an art museum near the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. It is known as a part of the "Golden Triangle of Art", which also includes the Prado and the Reina Sofia galleries. The Thyssen-Bornemisza fills the historical gaps in its... counterparts' collections: in the Prado's case this includes Italian primitives and works from the English, Dutch and German schools, while in the case of the Reina Sofia it includes Impressionists, Expressionists, and European and American paintings from the second half of the 20th century. With over 1,600 paintings the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection was once the second largest private collection in the world after the British Royal Collection. A competition was held to house the museum in 1986 after Baron Thyssen, having tried to enlarge his Museum in Villa Favorita, searched for a location in Europe. The collection started in the 1920s as a private collection by Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon.
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Artworks by Titian featured in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Titian Piece Featured	Artform
Portrait of Doge Francesco Venier	Painting

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Gemäldegalerie, BerlinThe Gemäldegalerie is an art museum in Berlin, Germany, and one of the Berlin State Museums . It holds one of the world's leading collections of European art from the 13th to the 18th centuries. Its collection includes masterpieces from such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Hans... Holbein, Rogier van der Weyden, Jan van Eyck, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt and Johannes Vermeer. It was first opened in 1830, and was rebuilt in 1998. It is located in the Kulturforum museum district west of Potsdamer Platz. The collection was first located in the Royal Museum located near Lustgarten on Unter den Linden, a famous Berlin street. The collection began largely with the collection of Frederick William I, known as the Great Elector and Frederick the Great. It was along the centuries enlarged not only through acquisitions but also by means of war booty and contains many objects looted from Poland.
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Artworks by Titian featured in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Titian Piece Featured	Artform
The Infant Daughter of Roberto Strozzi	Painting

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Places Titian has lived

Marker	Location	Population
A	Pieve di Cadore	4,038

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Periods and Movements

High Renaissance

1490 - 1527

In art history, High Renaissance, is the period denoting the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance. The High Renaissance period is traditionally taken to begin in the 1490s, with Leonardo's fresco of the Last Supper in Milan and the death of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence, and to... have ended in 1527 with the sacking of Rome by the troops of Charles V. This term was first used in German in the early nineteenth century, and has its origins in the "High Style" of painting and sculpture described by Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Over the last twenty years, use of the term has been frequently criticized by academic art historians for oversimplifying artistic developments, ignoring historical context, and focusing only on a few iconic works. Since the late eighteenth century, the High Renaissance has been taken to refer to a short period of exceptional artistic production in the Italian states, principally Rome, capital of the Papal States, under Pope Julius II.
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Artists from the High Renaissance

High Renaissance Artist	Artforms Used	Nationality
Michelangelo	Painting, Sculpture	Italy
Leonardo da Vinci	Painting, Sculpture	Italy
Donato Bramante	Painting	Italy
Raphael	Painting, Drawing	Italy
Giorgione	Painting	Italy

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Italian Renaissance

1420 - 1600

The Italian Renaissance was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy around the end of the 13th century and lasted until the 16th century, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe.... The term Renaissance is in essence a modern one that came into currency in the 19th century, in the work of historians such as Jacob Burckhardt. Although the orgins of a movement that was confined largely to the literate culture of intellectual endeavor and patronage can be traced to the earlier part of the 14th century, many aspects of Italian culture and society remained largely Medieval; the Renaissance did not come into full swing until the end of the century. The word renaissance means "rebirth", and the era is best known for the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the period that Renaissance humanists labeled the Dark Ages. These changes, while significant, were concentrated in the elite, and for the vast majority of the population life was little changed from the Middle Ages.
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Artists from the Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance Artist	Artforms Used	Nationality
Leonardo da Vinci	Painting, Sculpture	Italy
Michelangelo	Painting, Sculpture	Italy
Sandro Botticelli	Painting	Italy
Raphael	Painting, Drawing	Italy
Giorgione	Painting	Italy

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Renaissance

1300 - 1700

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. Though availability of paper and the invention of metal movable type sped the dissemination of ideas from... the later 15th century, the changes of the Renaissance were not uniformly experienced across Europe. As a cultural movement, it encompassed innovative flowering of Latin and vernacular literatures, beginning with the 14th-century resurgence of learning based on classical sources, which contemporaries credited to Petrarch, the development of linear perspective and other techniques of rendering a more natural reality in painting, and gradual but widespread educational reform. In politics the Renaissance contributed the development of the conventions of diplomacy, and in science an increased reliance on observation. Historians often argue this intellectual transformation was a bridge between the Middle Ages and the Modern era.
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Artists from the Renaissance

Renaissance Artist	Artforms Used	Nationality
Stanislaw Samostrzelnik	Painting	--
Giorgio Vasari	Painting	Italy
Sandro Botticelli	Painting	Italy
Hieronymus Bosch	Painting, Drawing	Netherlands
Raphael	Painting, Drawing	Italy

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Peers of Titian

Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since.... His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series , retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work. His well-known works include the Knight, Death, and the Devil , Saint Jerome in his Study and Melencolia I , which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium. Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.
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GiorgioneGiorgione was a Venetian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over thirty. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work. The resulting... uncertainty about the identity and meaning of his art has made Giorgione one of the most mysterious figures in European painting. Together with Titian, who was slightly younger, he is the founder of the distinctive Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting, which achieves much of its effect through colour and mood, and is traditionally contrasted with the reliance on a more linear disegno of Florentine painting. The little known of Giorgione's life is given in Giorgio Vasari's Vite. The painter came from the small town of Castelfranco Veneto, 40 km inland from Venice. His name sometimes appears as Zorzo. The variant Giorgione may be translated "Big George".
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Frequently Asked Questions

• Q:
  Where was Titian born?
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  Titian was born in Pieve di Cadore.
• Q:
  What notable artwork was created by Titian?
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  Famous works of art by Titian includes:
  - Venus of Urbino
  - Bacchus and Ariadne
  - Sacred and Profane Love
  - Venus Anadyomene
  - Allegory of Prudence
  - Annunciation
  - The Infant Daughter of Roberto Strozzi
• Q:
  What faith did Titian believe in?
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  Roman Catholicism was Titian's chosen denomin

Current owner of Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga

 

 

Uffizi Gallery

The Uffizi Gallery is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. Building of the palace was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as the offices for the Florentine magistrates — hence the name "uffizi" . Construction was continued to Vasari's design by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti and ended in 1581. The cortile is so long and narrow, and open to the Arno River at its far end through a Doric screen that articulates the space without blocking it, that architectural historians treat it as the first... regularized streetscape of Europe. Vasari, a painter as well as architect, emphasized the perspective length by the matching facades' continuous roof cornices, and unbroken cornices between storeys and the three continuous steps on which the palace-fronts stand. The niches in the piers that alternate with columns were filled with sculptures of famous artists in the 19th century.

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quick facts

Opened:	1765
City:	Florence
Time Zone:	Central European Time
Latitude:	43.768639
Longitude:	11.255214
Also Known As:	Galleria degli Uffizi, Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Location of Uffizi Gallery

Uffizi Gallery Image Gallery

Paolo Uccello: The Battle of San Romano, 1456	View of hallway.[1]
Raphael: Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga	Rembrandt van Rijn: Self Portrait as a Young Man
Titian: Flora (mythology), 1515-1520	The narrow courtyard, showing view toward the Arno River
Botticelli: La Primavera, c. 1478	Simone Martini: Annunciation

Artwork on display at Uffizi Gallery

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  Venus of Urbino
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  Judith Beheading Holofernes
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  Mountainous Landscape
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  Self Portrait
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  The Town Hall of Amsterdam
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  Self-Portrait
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  Self-portrait
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  Salome
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  Self-portrait
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  Still Life with Musical Instruments and Fruit
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  Adoration of the Magi
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  Adoration of the Magi
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  Adoration of the Magi
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  Adoration of the Magi of 1475
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  Adoration of the Magi
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  Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo
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  Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici
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  Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi
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  Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi
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  Self-portrait
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  Primavera
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  The Waterseller of Seville
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  Madonna in Glory
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  Madonna in Glory with Seraphim
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  Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga
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  Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga
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  Portrait of Isabella Brandt
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  Tribute to Caesar

 

Architects of Uffizi Gallery

Giorgio VasariGiorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Renaissance artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing. Vasari was born in Arezzo, Tuscany. Recommended at an early age by his cousin Luca Signorelli,... he became a pupil of Guglielmo da Marsiglia, a skillful painter of stained glass. Sent to Florence at the age of sixteen by Cardinal Silvio Passerini, he joined the circle of Andrea del Sarto and his pupils Rosso Fiorentino and Jacopo Pontormo where his humanist education was encouraged. He was befriended by Michelangelo whose painting style would influence his own. In 1529, he visited Rome and studied the works of Raphael and others of the Roman High Renaissance. Vasari's own Mannerist paintings were more admired in his lifetime than afterwards. In 1547 Vasari completes the hall of the chancery in Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome with frescoes that received the name Sala dei Cento Giorni. He was consistently employed by patrons in the Medici family in Florence and Rome, and he worked in Naples, Arezzo and other places.more

Bernardo BuontalentiBernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist. Buontalenti was born in Florence. He entered the service of the Medici as a youth and remained with them the rest of his life. He is said to have... been instructed in painting by Salviati and Bronzino, in sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, in architecture by Giorgio Vasari, and to have learned miniature painting under Giulio Clovio. He executed a number of miniatures for Francesco, the son of Cosimo I. More than a painter, he was celebrated as an architect; in this role he was much employed in the design of fortifications, villas, and gardens and is considered one of the most important architects of the Mannerist period. He was also a great mechanic, and an excellent mathematician. In 1562 he travelled to Spain. His first known work is from 1568, the Palazzo di Bianca Cappello in Florence.

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Florence

Population: 365,000

Florence , alternative obsolete form: Fiorenza; Latin: Florentia is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area. Florence is famous for its history. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence is considered the... birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages. A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family, and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1870 the city was also the capital of the recently established Kingdom of Italy. The historic centre of Florence attracts millions of tourists each year, and Euromonitor International ranked the city as the world's 72nd most visited in 2009, with 1,685,000 visitors. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982.more

Other Tourist Attractions in Florence

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  Ponte Vecchio
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  Fountain of Neptune
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  Piazza della Signoria
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  Battistero di San Giovanni
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  Santo Spirito di Firenze

 

Uffizi Gallery

Location:Florence

The Uffizi Gallery , is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. Building of the palace was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as the offices for the Florentine magistrates — hence the name "uffizi" . Construction was continued to Vasari's design by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti and ended in 1581. The cortile is so long and narrow, and open to... the Arno River at its far end through a Doric screen that articulates the space without blocking it, that architectural historians treat it as the first regularized streetscape of Europe. Vasari, a painter as well as architect, emphasized the perspective length by the matching facades' continuous roof cornices, and unbroken cornices between storeys and the three continuous steps on which the palace-fronts stand. The niches in the piers that alternate with columns were filled with sculptures of famous artists in the 19th century.

Periods and Movements

Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance was the beginning of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period... from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The term renaissance is in essence a modern one that came into currency in the 19th century, in the work of historians such as Jacob Burckhardt. Although the origins of a movement that was confined largely to the literate culture of intellectual endeavor and patronage can be traced to the earlier part of the 14th century, many aspects of Italian culture and society remained largely Medieval; the Renaissance did not come into full swing until the end of the century. The word renaissance means “rebirth”, and the era is best known for the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the period that Renaissance humanists labelled the Dark Ages. These changes, while significant, were concentrated in the elite, and for the vast majority of the population life was little changed from the Middle Ages.