Giacomo Doria

This group of 16th-century paintings – mostly Italian – can be viewed face to face at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The finest of them is Titian's portrait of the Genoese merchant Giacomo Doria. It came to the Ashmolean only recently from the grand English house where it found refuge after several earlier epochs among Doria heirs. The purchase for the museum was arranged in honor of the Oxford teacher and art historian Francis Haskell (1928-2000) – writer of many learned and witty books about European art-making and art-collecting. Better than most monuments for dead people, this painting makes a thrillingly appropriate memorial for an amply deserving dead person.

Titian
Portrait of Giacomo Doria
1533-35
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Titian
The Triumph of Love
1545
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jacopo Bassano
Christ among the Doctors
1539
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Cornelis van Haarlem
A Scholar in his Study
1580s
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Dosso Dossi
Young Man with a Dog and a Cat
16th century
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Flemish painter
Nativity
ca. 1500
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Scarsellino
Holy Family with St. John the Baptist
ca. 1590
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Andrea Solario
Ecce Homo
ca. 1505-07
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

attributed to Lambert Sustris
St. Jerome in the Wilderness
16th century
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jacopo Tintoretto
Resurrection of Christ
ca. 1555-75
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Giorgio Vasari
Allegory of the Immaculate Conception
1540
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Alessandro Allori
Portrait of a Young Man
1560s
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford