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In this painting, we see Saint Margaret, an Antioch virgin, emerging from a dragon’s severed body with a cross in hand. Titian makes Margaret the central figure in the painting in multiple ways. First, he makes her skin and clothing have much…

Titian was commissioned to create this painting for Alfonso d’Este. This painting demonstrates the joy brought to the people from wine. Clearly, a wine glass is being held in the center of the painting to demonstrate the immense focus Titian places…

Titian, a highly revered artist of the Venetian Renaissance, was commissioned by Alfonso I d’Este the Duke of Ferrara to work on a series of paintings for the Alabaster Chamber. The collection had a Dionysian theme and included The Worship of Venus,…

Titian, or Tiziano Vecellio, first gained popularity for his religious pieces and for applying the colorito technique and providing innovative twists to classical interpretations of biblical stories, such as in The Virgin and Child with Saints…

Titian created Saint Margaret and the Dragon in ca. 1565 and it is currently in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. Philip II owned two paintings of this saint: one remains of the Escorial, which came in 1574, and the version in the Museo del Prado…

The scene of Venus and Adonis comes from the literary work The Metamorphosis by Ovid. After being mistakenly hit by an arrow from Cupid, Venus, the goddess of love, became the lover of the mortal young hunter Adonis. Venus had a foreboding that…

Titian paints his image with vibrant warm colors and darker cool colors.  The one exception to this is the color of the sky in some areas and a woman's dress, which are both a light shade of blue. The painting has a vast amount of contrast across the…

The Death of Actaeon was a piece in a large mythological series created for King Phillip II, the son of King Charles and the king of Spain [1]. “Poesie”, the other name for this particular cycle, was painted by the world-renown painter Titian. [2]…

In this painting, we see Saint John the Evangelist on the island of Patmos reacting to the vision and voice of God. Titian highlights the heavenly calling in multiple ways. First, with regards to the composition of the image, although Saint John is…

This painting is extraordinary because it survived two extreme fires of the Ducal Palace in 1574 and 1577. Titian created it in 1524, and it is currently in the Ducal Palace, over the staircase leading to the Doge's private apartment. There are few…