Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Piero di Cosimo's portrait of Francesco Giamberti da Sangallo, musician (ca 1485) is one of the exhibits in Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck To Titian , which opens at the National Gallery in London on 15 October and continues until 18 January 2009. It features over 70 paintings, sculptures, drawings and medals by artists such as Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, van Eyck, Holbein, Dürer, Lotto, Pontormo and...
Podtours (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
I put in a day’s work at the National Gallery this weekend, preparing a free Podtour of the early Italian masters. I finished that survey with an hour to go till I needed to catch my bus - so I played my little game of wandering around and just seeing what caught my eye. First - [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Titian: 'Bacchus and Ariadne' 1520-3, National Gallery, London
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
OMAHA, NE - A nearly 475-year old portrait by Venetian painter Titian (pronounced tish-in; Tiziano Vecellio, ca. 1487-1576) is back on view today in Joslyn Art Museum's Medieval and Renaissance gallery following an 11-month absence. Georgio Cornaro with a Falcon (1537), oil on canvas, which entered Joslyn's collection in 1942, was accepted into the J. Paul Getty Museum's Conservation Partnerships...
Off Center (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
What happens when an art lover tiles his bathroom? You may have seen work by graphic designer Christoph Niemann in Wired magazine, the New York Times, or the New Yorker (he’s done a number of covers for that last publication). Like most illustrators, he’s developed a range of styles, one of which involves rendering images in [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Titian made painting fashionable, says his biographer Mark Hudson. That's one reason why Britain must buy his masterpiece.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
The fate of two Old Masters reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the laws governing the sale of art PAINTING, said Ambrose Bierce, is “the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic”. In Titian’s case, the critics have purred with enthusiasm. Lucian Freud hailed the two paintings offered for sale by the Duke of Sutherland, Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto,...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
THE head of one of Britain's most famous art galleries has warned that a deal to save two of Scotland's most valuable paintings has not been secured.
Times Online - Guest contributors (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Has any museum or gallery ever been placed in such an appalling predicament? Not only has John Leighton, director-general of the National Galleries of Scotland, got to find £50 million in only four months for Diana & Actaeon, one of Titian's masterpieces, but he has to find another £50 million in four years to buy its pendant, Diana & Callisto. If not, they and some 20 other pictures in the Duke of...
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
An unknown Turner? No. This is a watercolour sketch by John Constable: Looking South from Near Red Brow Towards Rosthawaite ( CLICK for a larger graphic). It's on the Metropolitan Police Art & Antiques database as stolen, under the Most Wanted category. There's also a stolen oil painting by Titian in this category: Rest on the Flight into Egypt ( CLICK ). These are among a mere handful of paintings...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
A British aristocrat is offering two public art galleries a $92 million bargain: a Renaissance painting by the Italian artist Titian that has been on display in Britain for 200 years but now could be sold overseas. "Diana and Actaeon," one of Titian's...
Fora (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
According to the Times : Two of the most important paintings in Britain could be lost to the nation unless £100 million is found to keep them. The paintings, by the Renaissance master Titian, are believed to be worth £300 million on the open market, but are offered at a discount to the nation by the Duke of Sutherland. He has set a deadline of New Year’s Eve to agree the £50 million purchase of Diana...
France24 (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
The Duke of Sutherland has granted the National Galleries of Scotland and London's National Gallery four months to collect the £50m required to purchase a masterpiece by Titian, before the painting goes on the private market for twice as much.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Two Titian paintings are for sale and some say losing them "would be like the Mona Lisa being taking out of the Louvre" in Paris, Nicholas Glass reports.
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Full coverage of UK Politics The idea that we should spend a large sum of taxpayers' money to save two Titian masterpieces for 'the nation'' is a controversial one. The paintings, Diana & Actaeon and Diana & Callisto, currently hanging in the National Gallery of Scotland, are important works. They a...
