Venus and Adonis (Titian, Oxford)
Venus and Adonis is a c. 1560 painting by Titian. Now in a private collection, it is on display in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
Titian painted several versions of the subject and some have theorised that this painting is the first version sent to Philip II of Spain. According to this hypothesis it was damaged during transport to Spain and so returned to Venice between 155 and 1559, being replaced by the version now in Madrid.[1]
References
- ↑ William R. Rearick, Titian’s Later Mythologies, Artibus et Historiae, n. 33, 1996
Bibliography
- Gibellini C. (ed.), Tiziano, RCS Skira, Milano, 2003
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