TITIAN IN MYTHOLOGY
compiled by Tracy Marks http://www.webwinds.com
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General Titian Sites with Images
Titian at Mark Harden's Art Archive http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/titian_ext.html
Titian on the Internet http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/titian.html
Titian art images http://www.ocaiw.com/tiziano.htm
Titian at the Web Museum http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/titian/
Capolari di Tiziano http://www.artonline.it/edicola/cdarte/tiziano/capocd12.html
Titian at CGFA http://cgfa.kelloggcreek.com/titian/index.html
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/titian/
Uffizi Titian Room
http://www.arca.net/uffizi1/cercals.asp?Sala=28+-+The+Titian+Room
http://www.arca.net/uffizi1/artista.asp?Autore=Tiziano+Vecellio+called+Titian
Titian's Mythical Paintings
Bacchus and Ariadne http://cgfa.kelloggcreek.com/titian/p-titian11.htm
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/bacchus_ariadne.jpg.html
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/w_wing/T0035.html
BACCHUS AND ARIADNE:
This painting is one of a famous series by Bellini, Titian and the
Ferrarese artist Dosso Dossi, commissioned by Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, for the
Camerino d'Alabastro in his Castle..... Bacchus, god of wine, emerges with his followers
from a landscape to the right. Falling in love with Ariadne on sight, he leaps towards her
from his cheetah-drawn chariot. Ariadne was abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by
Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance. Bacchus, however, raised her to heaven,
represented by the stars above her head.
The arm of Bacchus may be based on that of God the Father in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel
ceiling. The source of the story is taken from celebrated passages from the Latin poets
Catullus ('Carmina', 64: 257-65), Ovid ('Ars Amatoria', I, 525-66) and Philostratus
('Imagines', 1: 15 and 19). |
Diana and Actaeon http://www.artonline.it/edicola/cdarte/tiziano/227mcd12.html
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/diana_actaeon.jpg.html
Diana and Callisto http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/diana_callisto.jpg.html
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/diana_callisto_detail_callisto.jpg.html
detail http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/diana_callisto_detail_callisto.jpg.html
Rape of Europa http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/rape_europa.jpg.html
Death of Actaeon http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/death_actaeon.jpg.html
The Flaying of Marsyas http://www.artonline.it/edicola/cdarte/tiziano/242mcd12.html
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/flaying_marsyas.jpg.html
Danae Receiving Golden Rain http://museoprado.mcu.es/prado/html/imirar.html
http://cgfa.kelloggcreek.com/titian/p-titian29.htm
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_3_1f.html
Feast of the Gods by Bellini and Titian http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pdimage?1141+0
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=1141+0+none
Titian's Venus Paintings
Venus and Adonis http://cgfa.kelloggcreek.com/titian/p-titian4.htm
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/titian_venus_and_adonis_washington.jpg.html
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=1226+0+none
Titian's first version of Venus and Adonis was
one of a series of eight mythological subjects created for King Philip II of Spain. More
than thirty painted and engraved versions of this popular theme survive today. Some
were painted by Titian, whereas others were created by members of his workshop, and later
copyists. According to Ovid's
Metamorphoses, Venus is in love with the handsome young Adonis, but knows that his ardent
devotion to the hunt will eventually kill him. In this painting, she is holding onto him,
attemping but failing to save his life. Adonis pulls away from her to heed the call of the
hunt, and as a result meets his death.
"It is odd to see Venus depicted as a vulnerable figure and from a rear view. Titian
wrote that by posing her from behind, he hoped to provide variety among the many nudes in
King Philip's collection. By painting Venus from the back, Titian also allowed viewers to
complete her beauty according to their own ideal of perfection. " |
Worship of Venus http://cgfa.kelloggcreek.com/titian/p-titian20.htm
Venus and Cupid http://www.arca.net/uffizi/img/1431.jpg
Venus and the LutePlayer
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=11&full=0&item=36%2E29
Venus with a Mirror http://cgfa.kelloggcreek.com/titian/p-titian3.htm
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=44+0+none
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