Titus, Emperor of Rome. Line engraving by A. Sadeler, 16--, after Titian.

  • Titian, approximately 1488-1576.
Date:
[between 1600 and 1699?]
Reference:
730761i
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Description

Titus, half-length portrait, wearing armour, seen from behind, directed to left, facing to front, gripping top of staff in his left hand

Publication/Creation

[Venice?] : Marcus Sadeler excud, [between 1600 and 1699?]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving ; sheet 33.8 x 23.7 cm

Lettering

D. Titus Vespasianus. XI. Laudatae soboles stirpis laudatior ipse, O Tite virtutum clara propago patris. Delitiae, quo tum vivebas, atque amor aevi Vne voluntates surripuisse sagax. Usurpet sine laude pius o tam nobile nomen, Tempora iam quod ad haec obsolet ipsa minus, Perdidit heu subito quod non te numen amicum Si tibi res fuerat perdere acerba diem. Aegidius Sadeler S.C.M. sculp. Titianus inventor. Marcus Sadeler excud. Lettering in four elegiac couplets below the portrait

Creator/production credits

"Titian's series of portraits of the Caesars was painted for the Duke of Mantua, Federico II Gonzaga, between 1536 and 1540. Sold to Charles I of Great Britain in 1628, and acquired for Philip IV of Spain in 1651, they were lost in the fire at the Alcazar, Madrid, in 1734. Their immense popularity spawned many painted, drawn and engraved copies throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. … Engravings made around 1620 by Aegidius Sadeler (c. 1570-1629) also helped to popularise the Caesars across Europe , but it is possible that they were taken not from Titian's originals but from a further set of copies" (Coulter, op. cit., p. 563)

References note

Frances Coulter, 'Drawing Titian's "Caesars": a rediscovered album by Bernardino Campi', The Burlington magazine, July 2019, 161: 562-571

Reference

Wellcome Collection 730761i

Notes

One print in a set of twelve pairs of prints of Roman emperors and empresses

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Where to find it

  • Titus and Martia Fulvia

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