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Portrait Of Pope Paul III With Camauro
''Portrait of Pope Paul III with Camauro'' (or ''Portrait of Pope Paul III with Cap'') is a 1545 – 1546 oil on canvas painting by Titian, now in the Museo nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples. AA. VV., ''I Farnese. Arte e collezionismo'', Milano, Editrice Electa, 1995, ISBN 978-8843551323, pp. 210-212. History Judging by the relative apparent ages of the Pope in the three works, the canvas was produced immediately after the '' Portrait of Pope Paul III'' (the first official version of the work) and before the '' Portrait of Pope Paul III with his Grandsons''. This assumption is fundamentally based on the age that transpires from the figure of the pope, who appears to be more advanced than that of the official portrait, already seventy-five, while it is less so than that where the pontiff himself appears with his two nephews. According to Vasari's ''Lives of the Artists'' it was produced for cardinal camerlengo Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, president of the Aposto ... [...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] |
