When the Venetian artist Titian (c.1488/90-1576) was only 20 years old, he painted the exquisite “Rest On The Flight Into Egypt”. Centuries later, after being stolen and then sensationally recovered at a bus-stop in 2002, the “little masterpiece” has set a new world auction record for the artist.
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The upcoming sale of a painting by Titian and his workshop has been described as a “once in a generation opportunity” for potential buyers. Scheduled to come under the hammer at Sotheby’s in December, Venus and Adonis is part of the poesie series of paintings by the artist which all depict mythological scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and other classical works.
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For almost 200 years, a parish church in Herefordshire has unwittingly harboured a Renaissance masterpiece after it suffered a botched restoration in the 1800’s. Experts now believe the enormous painting was made by the workshop of Titian (1488/90-1576), one of the most renowned Venetian artists of the sixteenth century.
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