Titian (–1576)
Perseus and Andromeda, c. between circa 1554 and circa 1556
Oil on canvas
175 × 189.5 cm (68.8 × 74.6 ″)
The Wallace Collection
In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the
Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia's hubris leads
her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends
a sea monster, Cetus, to ravage Aethiopia as divine punishment. Andromeda is
stripped and chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice to sate the monster, but is
saved from death by Perseus. More on Perseus and
Andromeda
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, or Titian
(1488/1490 – 27 August 1576), was an Italian painter, the most
important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.
Recognized
by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars", Titian was one
of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits,
landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting
methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a
profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on
future generations of Western art.
During the course of his long life, Titian's artistic
manner changed drastically but he retained a lifelong interest in color.
Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his
early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of tone are without precedent
in the history of Western painting. More Titian
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