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Titian: Saint John the Baptist
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Title |
Saint John the Baptist label QS:Les,"San Juan Bautista"
label QS:Lfr,"Saint Jean-Baptiste au désert"
label QS:Lde,"Der heilige Johannes der Täufer"
label QS:Len-gb,"Saint John the Baptist"
label QS:Lfa,"سن ژان باتیست"
label QS:Lzh,"施洗者約翰"
label QS:Lro,"Sfântul Ioan Botezătorul"
label QS:Lja,"洗礼者聖ヨハネ"
label QS:Lid,"Yohanes pembaptis"
label QS:Lpl,"Św. Jan Chrzciciel"
label QS:Lnl,"De heilige Johannes de Doper"
label QS:Ltr,"Vaftizci Yahya"
label QS:Lel,"Άγιος Ιωάννης ο Βαπτιστής"
label QS:Len,"Saint John the Baptist"
label QS:Lmk,"Свети Јован Крстител"
label QS:Lru,"Святой Иоанн Креститель" |
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Series title |
Saint John the Baptist ![]() |
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painting ![]() |
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Genre |
religious art ![]() |
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Depicted people |
John the Baptist ![]() |
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Date |
between circa 1540 and circa 1542 date QS:P,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1542-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 ![]() |
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Medium |
oil on canvas ![]() |
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Dimensions |
height: 201 cm (79.1 in) ![]() ![]() dimensions QS:P2048,+201U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+134U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q338330 |
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Accession number |
314 (Gallerie dell'Accademia) ![]() |
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Source/Photographer | Web Gallery of Art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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current | 19:02, 1 June 2007 | ![]() | 643 × 970 (142 KB) | Flex | St. John the Baptist by Titian c. 1542 Oil on canvas, 201 x 134 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice From the [http://www.wga.hu/art/t/tiziano/4religio/baptist.jpg Web Gallery of Art]. |
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JPEG file comment | TIZIANO Vecellio
(b. 1490, Pieve di Cadore, d. 1576, Venezia) St. John the Baptist c. 1542 Oil on canvas, 201 x 134 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Even more than in his 'Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple', Titian's attempt to fill out his chromatic language with Mannerist elements is clearly evident in this 'St. John the Baptist' painted for the now demolished church of Santa Maria Maggiore. The overpowering plasticity of the figure, its theatrical pose, and the strength of the timbres of the tones all reflect the dominant taste of the fifth decade of the sixteenth century in a Venice which was increasingly concerned with the problems of form and composition that preoccupied the 'classicists' of Central Italy, ideas that were propagated in Venice by Jacopo Sansovino, Vasari and Salviati. But even in this muscular athlethe (certainly no hermit emaciated by exhausting fast) the formal academic quality of Mannerism is redeemed by Titian's sensitivity to colour: the 'impasto' of the paint seems almost to be rising in the luminous matching of the grey of the skin to the ivory colour of the flesh and in the browns, greens and darkened by the rushing torrent. Indeed it was precisely because of his feeling for colour that in Titian the formulae of Mannerism, instead of crystalizing in abstract programmatic projects, was translated into an enthusiasm for research.
Author: TIZIANO Vecellio Title: St. John the Baptist Form: painting Type: religious Time-line: 1501-1550 School: Italian |
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