The Birth of Adonis

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The Birth of Adonis is a c.1506-1508 oil on panel painting attributed to Titian, now in the Musei civici in Padua. It shows the birth of Adonis from Ovid's Metamorphoses,^[1] forming a pair with The Legend of Polydoros.

It originated as part of a cassone, which entered its present home as a legacy from Emo Capodilista in 1864. Then attributed to Giorgione, it was later reattributed as an early work by Titian. Some art historians have also suggested an attribution to Romanino. At the centre is a group of figures freeing the child Adonis from his mother, who has just been transformed into a tree. To the left is a pair of lovers (referring to Adonis' conception), whilst on the left is his future lover Venus.

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^ (in Italian) Francesco Valcanover, L'opera completa di Tiziano, Rizzoli, Milano 1969

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Portraits	Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter (1503–1506) A Man with a Quilted Sleeve (c. 1509) La Schiavona (1510–1512) A Man New York, c. 1512) (Indianapolis, c. 1515 Shepherd with a Flute (c. 1510–1515) A Man in a Red Cap (c. 1510–1515) A Sick Man (1515) Jacopo Sannazaro (c. 1514–1518) Gian Giacomo Bartolotti da Parma (c. 1515) A Knight of Malta (c. 1515) Vincenzo Mosti (c. 1520) Young Woman in a Black Dress (c. 1520) Man with a Glove (c. 1520) Laura Dianti (c. 1520–1525) Alfonso I d'Este (1523) A Lady (c. 1525–1565) Federico II Gonzaga (c. 1529) Giacomo di Andrea Dolfin (c. 1531–1532) Alfonso d'Avalos with a Page (1533) Charles V with a Dog (1533) Ippolito de' Medici (1532–1533) Giacomo Doria (1533–1535) Charles V (1533–1535) Isabella d'Este (1534–1536) La Bella (1536) Girl in a Fur (1536–1538) Count Antonio Porcia and Brugnera (c. 1535–1540) A Man with a Falcon (c. 1537) Eleonora Gonzaga della Rovere (1538) Francesco Maria della Rovere (1538) Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1539–1540) Benedetto Varchi (c. 1540) Pope Sixtus IV (c. 1540) A Young Englishman (1540–1545) Ranuccio Farnese (c. 1542) Clarissa Strozzi (1542) The Vendramin Family (1543–1547) Pietro Aretino (1545) Lavinia Vecellio (c. 1545) Pope Paul III (1545–1546) Pope Paul III Wearing a Camauro (1545–1546) Pope Paul III and His Grandsons (1545–1546) Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (c. 1545–1546) Pier Luigi Farnese (1546) Andrea Gritti (c. 1546–1550) Charles V (on horseback) (1548) Charles V (seated) (1548) Isabella of Portugal (1548) John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (c. 1550–1551) A General (c. 1550) Philip II in Armour (1551) Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo (1552) Philip II (1554) Woman Holding an Apple (c. 1550–1555) Christina of Denmark (1555–1556) Girl with a Platter of Fruit (c. 1555–1558) Fabrizio Salvaresio (1558) An Unknown Lady (c. 1550–1560 – also attributed to Titian's workshop) Jacopo Strada (1567–1568) A Lady in White (c. 1561)
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