TizianoVenereAdoneWashinghton.jpg

Summary

Titian : Venus and Adonis wikidata:Q4009572 reasonator:Q4009572
Artist
Titian (1490–1576) wikidata:Q47551 s:it:Autore:Tiziano q:en:Titian
Titian
Alternative names
Tiziano Vecelli; Tiziano Vecellio
Description Italian painter, drawer, architectural draftsperson and printmaker
Date of birth/death between 1485 and 1490
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1485-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1490-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
27 August 1576 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Pieve di Cadore Venice
Work location
Venice (1498), Ferrara , Mantua , Padua (1511), Milan (1540), Rome (1545–1546), Florence (1546), Augsburg (1548, 1550–1551), Constantinople ( today Istanbul ) (1555-1557)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q47551
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title

Venus and Adonis

label QS:Lit,"Venere ed Adone"
label QS:Lhu,"Venus és Adónisz"
label QS:Lhr,"Venera i Adonis"
label QS:Lgl,"Venus e Adonis"
label QS:Lsv,"Venus och Adonis"
label QS:Lsr,"Венера и Адонис"
label QS:Lru,"Венера и Адонис"
label QS:Lsk,"Venuša a Adónis"
label QS:Lde,"Venus und Adonis"
label QS:Lpt,"Vênus e Adônis"
label QS:Lpl,"Wenus i Adonis"
label QS:Lbg,"Венера и Адонис"
label QS:Lda,"Venus og Adonis"
label QS:Lro,"Venus și Adonis"
label QS:Llt,"Venera ir Adonis"
label QS:Lnl,"Venus en Adonis"
label QS:Lmk,"Венера и Адонис"
label QS:Lid,"Venus dan Adonis"
label QS:Lnn,"Venus og Adonis"
label QS:Lla,"Venus et Adonis"
label QS:Laz,"Venera və Adonis"
label QS:Les,"Venus y Adonis"
label QS:Lfr,"Vénus et Adonis"
label QS:Lfi,"Venus ja Adonis"
label QS:Len,"Venus and Adonis"
label QS:Leo,"Venuso kaj Adoniso"
label QS:Lcs,"Venuše a Adónis"
label QS:Lcy,"Gwener ac Adonis"
Series title Venus and Adonis Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Venus and Adonis Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people
Date circa 1560
date QS:P571,+1560-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 106.8 cm (42 in); width: 136 cm (53.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,106.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,136U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
West Building, Main Floor, Gallery 23
Accession number
1942.9.84
Place of creation Venice
Object history by 1679
date QS:P,+1679-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1679-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Anne Russell Digby, Countess of Bristol (....-1696/1697)
by 1685
date QS:P,+1685-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1685-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (circa 1646
date QS:P,+1646-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-1715)
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: inherited by John Spencer (1708-1746), Althorp , Northamptonshire
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: inherited by John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer (1734-1783), Althorp , Northamptonshire
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: inherited by George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), Althorp , Northamptonshire
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: inherited by John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782-1845), Althorp , Northamptonshire
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: inherited by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798-1857), Althorp , Northamptonshire
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: inherited by John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910), Althorp , Northamptonshire
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: inherited by Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer (1857-1922), Althorp , Northamptonshire
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: inherited by Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), Althorp , Northamptonshire

1924: purchased by Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London
1925: purchased by Arthur J. Sulley and Co., London
1925: purchased by Joseph Early Widener (1871-1943), Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

1942: given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition history

Old Masters , Thomas Agnew and Sons, London , 1922.
Masterpieces of Western European Painting of the XVIth-XXth Centuries from the Museums of the European Countries and USA , 1989, State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg , Cat.no. 5.

Rings. Five Passions in World Art , High Museum of Art, Atlanta , 4 July 1996–29 September 1996, ISBN 978-0939802814 , without cat. no. , with image.
References National Gallery of Art online catalogue , as Venus and Adonis , circa 1560
date QS:P,+1560-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source/Photographer it.wikipedia
Other versions
File:Ashmolean venus adonis.jpg
Version at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
File:Titian - Venus and Adonis - Google Art Project.jpg
Version at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
File:Titian - Venus and Adonis - Rome - WGA22906.jpg
Version at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
File:Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian - Venus and Adonis - Google Art Project.jpg
Version at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
File:WLA metmuseum Venus and Adonis by Titian.jpg
Version at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
File:TizianoVenereAdoneLondra.jpg
Version at the National Gallery, London
File:Venus and Adonis by Titian.jpg
Version at the Museo del Prado, Madrid

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  • 2009-04-10 14:49 DanielPao 498×390× (60771 bytes) Tiziano Vecellio Venere e Adone 1560 ca Washington National Gallery of Art

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