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Titian: Saint John the Baptist

Artist



Alternative names	Tiziano Vecellio; Tiziano Vecelli; Tiziano Vecellio di Gregorio; Titianus, Tiziano da Cador
Description	Italian painter, drawer, architectural draftsperson, printmaker and visual artist
Date of birth/death	between 1485 and 1490 date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1485-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1490-00-00T00:00:00Z/9	27 August 1576
Location of birth/death	Pieve di Cadore	Venice
Work location	Venice, Ferrara, Mantua, Padua (1511), Milan (1540), Rome (from 1545 until 1546 date QS:P,+1545-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1545-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1546-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Florence (1546), Augsburg (1548, from 1550 until 1551 date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1551-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Constantinople (from 1555 until 1557 date QS:P,+1555-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1555-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1557-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 )
Authority file	: Q47551 VIAF: 109266837 ISNI: 0000000107879191 ULAN: 500031075 LCCN: n79074519 NLA: 36049955 WorldCat

Title

Italian:

San Giovanni Battista

Saint John the Baptist

Series title

Saint John the Baptist

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

John the Baptist in the wilderness

Depicted people

John the Baptist

Date

between circa 1540 and circa 1542

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 201 cm (79.1 in)

; width: 134 cm (52.7 in)

Collection

Gallerie dell'Accademia

	Native name	Gallerie dell'Accademia
	Location	Campo della Carità, Dorsoduro 1050, Venice, Italy
	Coordinates	45° 25′ 51.88″ N, 12° 19′ 41.3″ E
	Established	1817
	Website	gallerieaccademia.it
	Authority file	: Q338330 VIAF: 145358176 ISNI: 0000000123369896 LCCN: n83215494 NLA: 35170275 GND: 2121572-8 WorldCat

Current location

Hall XI

Accession number

314 (Gallerie dell'Accademia)

Exhibition history

Titian. Saint John the Baptist, Museo del Prado, 6 November 2012 - 10 February 2013

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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.

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Author: TIZIANO Vecellio Title: St. John the Baptist Form: painting Type: religious Time-line: 1501-1550

School: Italian

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