Portrait of Pietro Aretino

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Portrait of Pietro Aretino
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Artist Titian
Year1545
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions96.7 cm× 76.6 cm(38.1 in× 30.2 in)
Location Palazzo Pitti, Florence

The Portrait of Pietro Aretino is an oil on canvas portrait of the Renaissance poet Pietro Aretino by Titian, painted around 1545, possibly for Cosimo I de' Medici. It is now in the Sala di Venere of Palazzo Pitti in Florence. [1] Titian painted two other portraits of Aretino: a 1527 portrait in the Kunstmuseum Basel, [2] and a 1537 portrait in the Frick Collection. [3]

References

  1. Wethey, Harold, The Paintings of Titian. II, London, Phaidon, 1971, pp. 116–117
  2. Kunstmuseum Basel
  3. Frick Collection