Portrait of a Lady
Titian
c. 1530/60
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
63.5 × 51.8 cm (25 × 20 5/16 in.); Framed: 85.1 × 76.2 × 6.4 cm (33 1/2 × 30 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
110872
About the Artist
Titian · 1483–1576
Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488-1576), known as Titian, was the greatest painter of the 16th-century Venetian school and one of the most influential artists in Western art history. Born in Pieve di Cadore in the Venetian Republic, Titian revolutionized painting through his innovative use of color, expressive brushwork, and mastery of oil technique. Trained in Giovanni Bellini's workshop alongside Giorgi...