''Christ and the Adulteress'', also called ''Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery'', and ''The Adulteress Brought before Christ'', is an oil painting usually attributed to Titian and painted early in his career, about 1510. It hangs in the
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.
Attribution
The picture has been variously attributed to
Bonifacio
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Cariani,
Romanino,
Sebastiano del Piombo,
Domenico Campagnola
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Domenico Mancini
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Giorgione, and Titian. The subject, too, has been contested;
Johannes Wilde and others argued in favour of the Old Testament story of
Susanna and
Daniel
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. Most scholars now accept the subject of the painting as the New Testament story of
Jesus and the woman taken in adultery, and attribute the painting to Titian.
[Brown 2007, p. 73.]
See also
*
List of works by Titian
References
Sources
* Brown, Beverly Louise (2007)
"Corroborative Detail: Titian’s "Christ and the Adulteress"" ''Artibus et Historiae'', 28(56): pp. 73–105.
"Christ and the Adulteress / Titian, The Adulteress Brought before Christ" ''Glasgow Museums Collections Online''. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
* ''
In the Age of Giorgione''. Royal Academy of Arts, 2016. pp. 118–119.
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Religious paintings by Titian
Titian, Glasgow
Paintings in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum