The 48 Artworks exhibited in Santa Maria Gloriosa Dei Frari Venice, Italy and ...

The detail shows the Virgin Annunciate.In an age that was completely shaped by Christianity, it would have been obvious that the two top panels, showing Mary on the right and an angel on the left, belonged together as an Annunciation. This was also an arrangement found in many other polyptychs. With...

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A Masterpiece of Renaissance Art

The Assumption of the Virgin, also known as 'La Assunta', is a stunning oil painting created by the renowned Venetian artist Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) between 1516 and 1518. This masterpiece is housed in its original location, the Basilica di Sant...

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The Polyptych of Resurrection in SS Nazzaro e Celso in Brescia was commissioned by Altobello Averoldi, papal legate to Venice, in 1518/19. The format of five panels is old-fashioned, but the dynamic relation between Christ and St Sebastian, predicting the triumph of both, anticipates the Baroque. Ti...

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Titian never saw Francis I, the king of France (1494—1547). He nonetheless succeeded in painting an impressive portrait of a ruler. The model for his portrait was a medal made by Benvenuto Cellini, showing the king in profile. The erect posture, broad torso and magnificent garments give the portrait...

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There is an inimitable elegance in the way Titian links the various shades of gray in the garment to those in the background. Gray silk, fur and a lace shirt all become tactile sensations. An inscription which used to be on the back of the portrait identified the figure as Tomaso Mosti. Some authors...

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Francesco Maria della Rovere (1490-1538) succeeded his uncle Guidobaldo da Montefeltre as ruler of Urbino. Though at first protected by his uncle Pope Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere), he lost power under the Medici Pope Leo X, but was able to regain his territories after his death. He was one of I...

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The doll's houses made in Amsterdam in the second half of the seventeenth century are regarded as an inexhaustible source of information about the furnishing of grand merchant's houses in the heyday of the Dutch Republic. This one was made by Petronella Oortsman (1656-1718) who as a wealthy widow ma...

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Discover the Masterpiece at Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice

The Assumption of the Virgin, painted in 1516-1518 by Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), is a breathtaking masterpiece that serves as the altarpiece for the high altar at Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, Italy.

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'Titian painted this picture for the Scuola Grande of Santa Maria della Carità, now the Accademia Gallery of Venice. The painting is remarkable for its glowing colours and for the careful depiction of naturalistic detail. The architectural vistas, inspired by stage-sets for the theatre, play a funda...

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'In 1529Federico Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua ordered three more works from Titian. The only one to survive is probably identifiable with the Madonna and Child with St Catherine and a Shepherd, known as the Madonna of the Rabbit. With a look of winning encouragement the Virgin restrains the rabbit, a sym...

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'Those sections of the fresco cycle that are attributed to Paolo in the Chapel of Our Lady of the Assumption in Prato Cathedral display a perfect compositional organization, created through a precise perspective pattern that places the simple, elegant buildings and the numerous human figures within ...

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Titian's portraits provide a gallery of the leading aristocrats of Italy. Most of these works are essentially idealized state portraits, although the heads are very convincingly rendered. Doge Andrea Gritti is to a greater extent a symbol of the office - that is, that of ruler of Venice. The giganti...

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'The Valois Tapestries are a series of eight tapestries depicting festivities or ''magnificences'' at the Court of France in the second half of the 16th century. The tapestries were executed either in the workshop of Spiering, or by Joos van Herseel and Franchoys Sweerts. The tapestries were designe...

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Born in Oudenaerde in Belgium, Adriaen Brouwer studied painting in Amsterdam, then Haarlem, where he came into contact with members of local rhetorical chambers, before settling in Antwerp. Admitted as a free master to the painters' guild in 1632, he also became a member of the rhetorical chamber as...

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