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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.
The dramatic movement in the picture contrasts with the stillness and intensity of the couple’s gaze, which recalls that between Bacchus and Ariadne in Titian’s earlier painting for Alfonso I d‘Este, Duke of Ferrara. The best known version of the story of Venus and Adonis appears in Book 10 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
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.
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, 1635 by Peter Paul Rubens. The story, which has attracted not only artists but poets, including William Shakespeare, tells that Adonis was the offspring of the incestuous union of King Cinyras of Paphos, in Cyprus, with his daughter Myrrha. His beauty was a byword.
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 clearly based on the Farnese Danaë, there is some logic in supposing that it, too, had an original pendant in the lost Venus and Adonis.
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Titian painted the first Venus and Adonis, which was lost but is known from the copies that were made of it, at the end of the 1520´s.
