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Sisyphus (Titian)
''Sisyphus'' (Spanish: ''Sísifo'') is an oil on canvas painting by the Venetian master Titian, made in 1548-1549. It is in the collection of the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. Subject From Homer onwards Sisyphus was famed as the craftiest of men. In the Greek underworld, underworld Sisyphus was compelled to roll a big stone up a steep hill; but before it reached the top of the hill the stone always rolled down, and Sisyphus had to begin all over again. The subject was a commonplace of ancient writers, and Titian's source was a passage in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'',Falomir Faus 2003. which recounts the eternal sufferings of several personages in the underworld: History On his first visit to Augsburg Titian received a new commission from Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V's sister, Queen Mary of Hungary (governor of the Netherlands), Mary of Hungary. Titian had to execute two or three large pictures, which should represent Tantalus, Sisyphus and Tityus. Two of them were pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titian
Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. 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 colour, exerted a profound influence not only on painters of the late Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Art of Europe, Western artists. His career was successful from the start, and he became sought after by patrons, initially from Venice and its possessions, then joined by the north Italian princes, and finally the Habsburgs and the papacy. Along with Giorgione, he is considered a founder of the Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting. In 1590, the painter and art theorist Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
