Sunday, May 29, 2022

Venetian Painters Allied to Titian's Studio

Damiano Mazza
Abduction of Ganymede
1575
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Francesco Vecellio
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
ca. 1520-40
oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Francesco Vecellio
Adoration of the Shepherds
ca. 1519-26
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

"Titian's brother, Francesco Vecellio, is conspicuous for the small profit his relationship with Titian brought him.  A few years Titian's senior (born probably in the mid or later 1480s), his beginning as a painter was set back by service as a soldier.  We know no work of his before the first years of the second decade.  . . .  From the first he seems to have been content to accept the role of follower of his brother to which his closeness of relationship and distance in talent had condemned him.  On occasion the working connexion between Francesco and Titian seems to have been close, and Francesco may even at times have performed the functions of a shop assistant."

– S.J. Freedberg, Painting in Italy 1500-1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (1970)

Marco Vecellio
Scene in the Venetian Mint
ca. 1590
oil on canvas
(installed on ceiling)
Sala del Senato, Palazzo Ducale, Venice

Marco Vecellio
Scene in the Venetian Mint (detail)
ca. 1590
oil on canvas
(installed on ceiling)
Sala del Senato, Palazzo Ducale, Venice

Gaspare Narvesa
St Andrew, St Mark, St Jerome
1597
oil on canvas
Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunziata, Mel

Polidoro da Lanciano
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1540-60
oil on canvas
Galleria Estense, Modena

Polidoro da Lanciano
Adoration of the Magi (detail)
ca. 1540-60
oil on canvas
Galleria Estense, Modena

Polidoro da Lanciano
Adoration of the Magi (detail)
ca. 1540-60
oil on canvas
Galleria Estense, Modena

Polidoro da Lanciano
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery
ca. 1540-45
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia

Polidoro da Lanciano
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
before 1565
oil on panel
Pinacoteca Egidio Martini, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Polidoro da Lanciano
Virgin and Child with St Mark and St Peter
ca. 1535-40
oil on canvas
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Polidoro da Lanciano
Virgin and Child with St Catherine and St Jerome
ca. 1540-60
oil on canvas
Courtauld Gallery, London

Polidoro da Lanciano
Rest on the Return from Egypt, with St John the Baptist
ca. 1530
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre
 
Alec Cobbe
Interior of Titian's Studio in Venice
2010
acrylic on board
National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey