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17 October 2007 – 6 January 2008

The late Titian - and the Sensuality of Painting

Following the exhibition “Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting” - organised by the Kunsthistorisches Museum last year in collaboration with the National Gallery in Washington - we now present an exhibition dedicated to Titan’s late works. “late Titian and the Sensuality of Painting” will open on October 17, 2007, and will move to Venice (Gallerie dell’Accademia) in February 2008.

The exhibition, the result of extensive research, scholarship and planning, brings together about sixty paintings, among them more than thirty loans. It focuses on a wide range of topics ranging from the fertile cultural conditions found in Venice during the third quarter of the 16th century to Titian’s patrons and colleagues (especially Sciavone, Tintoretto and Jacopo Bassano) to the figure of the artist himself. The main focus is on the last twenty-five years of Titian’s creative life, which will be viewed against the background of the master’s family circumstances, questions of inheritance, and the role of his studio assistants. In addition, the exhibition includes around fifteen sixteenth-century graphic works from the Albertina that document the overwhelming popularity of Titian’s compositions, and illustrate how his inventions were translated into a simpler pictorial language that appealed to a wider public.

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The eight different collections of the museum are partly in the Neue Burg and in Schloß Schönbrunn. They include objects from old Egypt, the antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern age until about 1800. Special focusses are the art of the Renaissance and the Baroque.

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