Thursday, June 9, 2022

Paintings Ignored by S.J. Freedberg - Titian before 1560

Titian
Adam and Eve
ca. 1550
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Titian
Portrait of a Knight of Malta with a Clock
ca. 1550
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Titian
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1550
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Titian
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1550
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Titian
Venus with an Organist
ca. 1550
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Titian
Venus and Cupid with an Organist
ca. 1551
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Titian
Portrait of Philip II as Crown Prince
1551
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Titian
St John the Baptist
ca. 1550-55
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Titian
La Gloria
ca. 1551-54
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Titian
Portrait of Filippo Archinto, Archbishop of Milan
ca. 1555
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Titian
Portrait of Philip II, King of Spain
ca. 1556
oil on canvas
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Titian
Venus and Adonis
(the Rokeby Venus and Adonis)
ca. 1554
oil on canvas
National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey

Titian
Ecce Homo
ca. 1558-60
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Titian
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1559-60
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

"All these works, I say, he has executed, with many others that I omit in order not to be wearisome, up to his present age of about seventy-six years.  Tiziano has been very sound in health, and as fortunate as any man of his kind has ever been; and  he has not received from Heaven anything save favours and blessings.  In his house in Venice have been all the Princes, men of letters and persons of distinction who have gone to that city or lived there in his time, because, in addition to his excellence in art, he has shown great gentleness, beautiful breeding, and most courteous ways and manners.  He has had in Venice some competitors, but not of much worth, so that he has surpassed them easily with the excellence of his art and with his power of attaching himself and making himself dear to the men of quality."  

– from Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1568), translated by Gaston du C. de Vere (1912)