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There is a precise date for only one version, that in the Prado in Madrid, which is documented in correspondence between Titian and Philip II of Spain in 1554. However, this appears to be a later repetition of a composition first painted a considerable time earlier, possibly as early as the 1520s.
Venus and Adonis. Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) Italian. 1550s. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 608. Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses inspired Titian to paint what he called poesie, or poetry in paint. Here, Venus tries to stop her lover from departing for the hunt, fearing—correctly—that he would be killed.
Titian’s Venus and Adonis was greatly admired and proved very influential. He made the subject one of the most popular in secular European painting, and also favoured for small bronze sculptural groups.
Full Artwork Details. Title: Venus and Adonis. Artist/Maker: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, about 1489 - 1576) Date: about 1555–1560. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: Unframed: 161.9 × 198.4 cm (63 3/4 × 78 1/8 in.) Framed [Outer Dim]: 209.6 × 247 × 14 cm (82 1/2 × 97 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.) Culture: Italian. Object Number: 92.PA.42. Mark (s):
Mar 21, 2019 · As documented by a famous letter of 1554, Titian. conceived the Venus and Adonis for Philip of Spain as a pendant to a second. version of the Danaë, painted for him a year or two earlier; and since the latter is.
Venus and Adonis. Peter Paul Rubens Flemish. probably mid-1630s. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 621. Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s arrows, Venus fell in love with the handsome hunter Adonis.
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Date: Second half of the 16th century. Physical Dimensions: w1895 x h1828 cm. Type: Painting. Medium: Oil. Work Notes: Copy of a studio variant (the so-called 'Barberini type') of...
