Portrait Of Pope Paul III
''Portrait of Pope Paul III'' (or ''Portrait of Pope Paul III Without Cap'') is a 1543 Oil painting, oil-on-canvas portrait by Titian of Pope Paul III, produced during the pope's visit to Northern Italy.Portrait of Pope Paul III Without Cap
Google Arts and Culture. Retrieved 31 March 2022 It is in the collection of the Capodimonte Museum, Naples, southern Italy.

Background

The work was completed by Titian during a meeting with Paul III in Ferrara, in April 1543 during a period of tension and political uncertainty leading up to the Council of Trent.Bondanella (1996), p. 86 The pope is depicted with unflinching realism and an old, tired and distrustful man, but who nevertheless has an intelligent and sharp expressio ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), 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. Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the final line of Dante Alighieri, Dante's ''Paradiso (Dante), Paradiso''), 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 colour, exercised a profound influence not only on painters of the late Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Art of Europe, Western artists. His career was successful from the start, and he became sought ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]