Doge Andrea Gritti

Titian

dc.coverage.temporal	creation date: 1546-1548	en_US
dc.creator	Titian	en_US
dc.date	1546-1548	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-05-11T20:55:00Z
dc.date.available	2009-05-11T20:55:00Z
dc.date.issued	1546-1548	en_US
dc.identifier	128085	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/39552	en_US
dc.description	The patrician Andrea Gritti (1455∆1538) was elected doge, or duke, of Venice in 1523, after having served the city as a military commander and diplomat. Renowned for his forceful personality and his promotion of the arts, Gritti remained an active civic leader until his death in 1538. Titian painted Gritti twice during his reign. He completed this posthumous portrait, which might have been commissioned as a memorial by the doge's family, around 1546∆1548. Dressed in the brocade robes and conical hat of his office, Gritti makes a grand impression. Glancing sternly to the viewer's left, he gathers up his cloak with his right hand and appears to stride forward, as if in a ceremonial procession. Titian further enhanced the monumental presence of the sitter by extending his image fully to the edges of the canvas. With its free, expressive brushwork, this portrait well exemplifies Titian's mature painting style. Because the canvas has never been flattened by the process of lining, the varying surface textures, such as the transparent red of the robe and the heavy impasto of the white fur and gold buttons, reveal the ways Titian applied his paints. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., website; 12/1/2003)	en_US
dc.description	detail, detail of buttons on doge's cape	en_US
dc.format.extent	133.6 x 103.2 cm (52.6 x 40.63 inches)	en_US
dc.format.medium	oil paint	en_US
dc.format.medium	canvas	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	117064	en_US
dc.rights	(c) Arthur Steinberg	en_US
dc.subject	Brocade	en_US
dc.subject	Hats	en_US
dc.subject	Doges	en_US
dc.subject	Robes	en_US
dc.subject	Half figures	en_US
dc.subject	Men -- Portraits	en_US
dc.subject	Painting, Renaissance	en_US
dc.subject	Painting, Italian --16th century	en_US
dc.title	Doge Andrea Gritti	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	All rights reserved	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	Repository: National Gallery of Art (Washington, District of Columbia, United States) ID: 1961.9.45	en_US
vra.culturalContext	Italian	en_US
vra.culturalContext	Venetian	en_US
vra.technique	painting (image-making)	en_US
vra.worktype	Oil painting	en_US
vra.worktype	Portrait	en_US
dc.contributor.display	painter: Titian (Italian, 1483-1576)	en_US