Venus and Adonis by Titian Antique Print Old Picture 1912 #22

Description: Venus and Adonis by Titian Antique Print 1912A colour print from a disbound art book from 1912. The reverse side is blank. Suitable for framing, the actual picture size is approx 7.625" x 7" or 19.5cm x 18cm printed on textured paper and one side mounted to heavyweight card paper which forms a border. Page size including border mount approx 8.875" x 8.25" This is an antique print from 1912 not a modern copy and does show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print including foxing or marks on the surrounding mount. Please view the scans as they form part of the description. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text taken from the opposite page. Please note this cannot be supplied with the print. Any spelling errors are due to the OCR program used. VENUS AND ADONIS By TITIAN (1477-1576) IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON It may be said of Titian that he was Art personified, and in that description will be found the reason for his supreme position among the painters of the world—a position which was surpassed by none, and challenged by Raphael alone. There are no mannerisms revealed in his work which enable one to point to any particular mark of genius and say that because of it he was a great painter. The conceptions of his mind, the magnificent colouring of his pictures, his revelations of beauty of form and composition, and his technical mastery, are all perfect. All his long life he was continually striving after perfection, and as constantly lamenting his inability to attain it. He was nearly seventy when he visited Rome and saw Michael Angelo, and in later years he said that his work greatly improved afterwards. Although he lived to be nearly a hundred, he painted to the end, and it was characteristic of him that one of his last remarks should be that he was only then beginning to understand what painting was. So pronounced was his genius that his contemporaries paid eloquent tribute to it. His works, said one of them, "are not art, but miracles; they make upon me the impression of something divine, and as heaven is the soul's paradise, so God has transfused into Titian's colours the paradise of our bodies." "Venus and Adonis" seems to have been an exercise in painting a woman's figure from an unusual point of view. The picture, which ranks among Titian's most important works, was painted when he was 77, and shows Venus trying to beguile Adonis from the allurements of the chase. She is all ardour, but the god of Love is asleep and Adonis is unmoved.

Price: 3.49 GBP

Location: Dereham

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Shipping Cost: 21.45 GBP