Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s · Oil on canvas
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Marked public domain by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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About this picture
Venus and Adonis is a public-domain painting by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), dated 1550s. Oil on canvas. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Venus and Adonis” (1550s). If this file is a print, it is an engraving after Titian or his workshop, not the canvas. The color everyone means by his name is in the painting.
About the artist
Titian, Tiziano Vecellio (about 1488–1576), was the great painter of Venetian color. Portraits and myth are the famous canvases. A print with his name is often an engraving after a painting, not the painting.
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