Portrait of Pietro Aretino
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Painting by Titian
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Artist | Titian |
Year | 1545 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 96.7 cm × 76.6 cm (38.1 in × 30.2 in) |
Location | Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
The Portrait of Pietro Aretino is an oil on canvas portrait of the Renaissance poet Pietro Aretino by Titian, painted around 1545, possibly for Cosimo I de' Medici. It is now in the Sala di Venere of Palazzo Pitti in Florence.[1] Titian painted two other portraits of Aretino: a 1527 portrait in the Kunstmuseum Basel,[2] and a 1537 portrait in the Frick Collection.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wethey, Harold, The Paintings of Titian. II, London, Phaidon, 1971, pp. 116–117
- ^ Kunstmuseum Basel
- ^ Frick Collection
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