• Tiziano Vecellio called Titian (1488/1490-1576) Danaë, 1544-1545. Oil on canvas. H. 120 ; l. 172 cm.
  • Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) was born in Venice around 1518. Thirty years stood between him and Titian, who was apparently his master for a while. ... Titian, Danaë.
  • The first two mythologies, 'Danaë' (about 1551–3) and 'Venus and Adonis' (about 1553–4), were variations of pictures Titian had painted before.
  • Danaë. ... The Danaë in the Wellington collection at Apsley House is now considered to be the version painted by Titian for Philip II in circa 1549–53, as the first in...
  • Another Renaissance expert, David Jaffé, who curated the National Gallery’s Titian exhibition of 2003, agrees that the Prado Danaë is “a better candidate [for...
  • Professor Charles Hope, a Titian expert, told the Observer that The Danaë , an early 1550s picture on a mythological subject, is “a later pastiche” and should...
  • On 15 April 1811 he was elected a royal academician (RA), and shortly afterwards produced a still larger enamel (eighteen inches by sixteen), after Titian's...
  • Top left: Titian’s Mistress, by Titian, 1550–60 Above: A Young Woman Holding Rose Garlands, by Titian and studio, 1550–60 Left: Danaë, by Titian, 1551–3.
  • Titian's work for Philip included a series of seven erotic mythological subjects (c. 1550-62): Danaë and Venus and Adonis (Prado), Perseus and Andromeda...
  • Part of the Wellington Collection, Titian's 'Danaë' is one of the first of the artist's 'poesie'.