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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 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 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…

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, 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 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…

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…

Commissioned by Mary of Hungary for the Binche Palace and painted by Titian c. 1548, Sisyphus documents the story of the King of Corinth, Sisyphus. Sisyphus was condemned to push a boulder to the top of a hill in the Underworld repeatedly, for the…

Tityus, sometimes spelled Tityos, is a giant from ancient Greek mythology and the illegitimate son of Zeus and Elara. After attempting to rape Leto, he is killed by the gods Artemis and Apollo and sent to eternal damnation in the depths of the Greek…

Sisyphus is a painting that depicts an old Greek myth. It was painted by Titian, who completed numerous commissions for mythological paintings including Bacchus and Ariadne, Diana and Actaeon, and the work discussed here, Sisyphus [1]. The myth of…