Episode 26 - Particular Magic
Titian, The Flaying of Marsyas, 1570s
Oil on canvas, 86 5/8 × 80 5/16 in. (220 × 204 cm)
Archidiocese Olomouc, Kroměříž, Czech Republic
Antonello da Messina, Portrait of a Young Man, c 1470
Oil on wood, 10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in (27 x 20.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Botticelli, Primavera, c 1480
Tempera and oil on wood, 81 ½ x 125 ½ in (207 x 319 cm)
Uffizi Gallerie, Florence
Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis in the Desert, 1475-80
Oil on panel, 49 1/16 x 55 7/8 in. (124.6 x 142 cm)
The Frick Collection, New York
Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de’Benci, c 1474-78
Oil on panel, 16 13/16 x 14 9/16 in (42.7 x 37 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Adoration of the Magi, 1488-89
Tempera and oil on panel, 112 1/4 x 94 1/2 in (285 x 240 cm)
Museo degli Innocenti, Florence
Titian, The Holy Family with a Shepherd, c 1510
Oil on canvas, 39 x 54 ¾ in (99.1 × 139.1 cm)
National Gallery, London
Giorgione, The Three Philosophers, c 1508-9
Oil on canvas, 49 7/16 × 57 9/16 in. (125.6 × 146.2 cm)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Titian, Le Concert Champêtre, c. 1515
Oil on canvas, 41 ¼ x 54 in (105 x 137 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Paolo Veronese, The Wedding at Cana, 1563
Oil on canvas, 22 x 32 ½ ft (6.77 x 9.94 m)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Digital facsimile by FactumArte installed in the painting's original location at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
Titian, Perseus and Andromeda, 1554-56, Wallace Collection, London
Titian, The Rape of Europa, 1559-62, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
At Titian: Women, Myth & Power, August 12, 2021 - January 2, 2022, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Titian, Perseus and Andromeda, 1554-56
Oil on canvas, 72 x 78 ½ in (183.3 x 199.3 cm)
Wallace Collection, London
Titian, The Rape of Europa, 1559-62
Oil on canvas, 70 1/16 x 80 11/16 in (178 x 205 cm)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Titian, Portrait of Filippo Archinto, mid 1550s
Oil on canvas, 46 1/2 x 37 in. (118.1 x 94 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Plain weave, quite nubby
Titian, The Venus of Urbino, 1538
Oil on canvas, 47 x 65 in (119 x 165 cm)
Uffizi Galleries, Florence
Twill texture, no seam evident
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, 1515-16
Oil on canvas, 46 ½ x 109 ½ in (118 x 278 cm)
Borghese Gallery, Rome
Smooth, plain weave, several seams visible
Refractive indices of traditional pigments
Titian, The Flaying of Marsyas, 1570s
Oil on canvas, 86 5/8 × 80 5/16 in. (220 × 204 cm)
Archidiocese Olomouc, Kroměříž, Czech Republic
Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, 1520-23
Oil on canvas, 69 ½ x 75 ¼ in (176.5 × 191 cm)
National Gallery, London
Cross section of sample from the red scarf on Ariadne's left shoulder
National Gallery Technical Bulletin Vol. 34, 2013, p. 73, fig. 135
Cross section of sample from the blue skirt of the Bacchante with cymbals
National Gallery Technical Bulletin Vol. 34, 2013, p. 74, fig. 140
Cross section of sample from the orange top of the Bacchante with cymbals
National Gallery Technical Bulletin Vol. 34, 2013, p. 75, fig. 141
Recommended Reading
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Joyce Plesters, “Cross-Sections and Chemical Analysis of Paint Samples,” Studies in Conservation, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 110-157, April, 1956
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1505000
Arthur Lucas and Joyce Plesters, “Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne,” National Gallery Technical Bulletin Vol 2, pp 25–47, 1978
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/technical-bulletin/lucas_plesters1978
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Jill Dunkerton and Marika Spring, with contributions from Billinge, R., Kalinina, K., Morrison, R., Macaro, G., Peggie, D. and Roy, A., “Titian’s Painting Technique to c.1540,” National Gallery Technical Bulletin Vol. 34, pp. 4–31, 2013
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/technical-bulletin/vol-34-essay-1-2013
Jill Dunkerton and Marika Spring, with contributions from Billinge, R., Kalinina, K., Morrison, R., Macaro, G., Peggie, D. and Roy, A., “Catalogue”, National Gallery Technical Bulletin Vol. 34, pp. 32 – 105, 2013
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/technical-bulletin/vol-34-catalogue-2013
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In a New Light: Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert: Technique and Working Method and Lecture Series: Charlotte Hale, The Frick Collection, 2011
https://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/archivedsite/exhibitions/bellini/index.htm
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Matthias, Wivel, Titian: Love, Desire, Death, Yale University Press, 2021
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