When I first saw Bacchus and Ariadne it hung on its own screen in front of a huge doorway, linking two of the most important parts of the National Gallery. You could see it shining out from several ...

William E. Wallace openly uses what he calls “informed imagination” to explore the relationship between the two masters in ...

Sight: 26 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (66.7 x 73 cm.), Frame: 34 5/8 x 37 in. (87.9 x 94 cm.) ...

Michelangelo remarked of his Venetian colleague, “it was a shame that in Venice they did not learn to draw well.” ...

Of course one cannot expect to understand a mythological picture without knowing the story, or in this case to read an allegorical painting without a knowledge of the ideas that are being represented, ...

The magnificent 16th-century court of the dukes of Ferrara near Venice attracted some of the most gifted artists and writers of the Renaissance. Deep inside the castle, a secret chamber housed one of ...

41.5 x 28 cm. (16.3 x 11 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

A picture of Bacchus and Ariadne had been described in Catullus`s epyllion, or mini-epic, The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis. 1500 years later Titian painted it: adding a few details, about Ariadne`s ...

The open-air exhibition features more than 20 life-size reproductions of the London museum's most famous paintings. National Gallery London’s National Gallery boasts an impressive array of art.

MADRID, June 16 (UPI) -- Tiziano Vecellio, known in English as Titian, was a double genius. He was, firstly, one of the greatest of all painters -- as the major exhibition of his work just opened at ...

In 1519 Titian was commissioned by Alfonso d’Este, the famously irascible Duke of Ferrara, to provide the first of three paintings for a study, the so-called camerino d’alabastro or alabaster room. If ...