Italians will check the authenticity of the Odessa Titian

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In the late 10 th of March, director of the Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Vladimir Ostrovsky go to Italy together with the painting Portrait of a Venetian Doge Girolamo Priuli, said Bridge-Odessa.

Local experts should finally determine whether the painting owned by Titian, is believed to Odessa.

In addition, Ostrovsky said that soon in the museum will vysokokacheskvennaya copy paintings by Caravaggio Christ Taking into custody, or the kiss of Judas (about 1598). This painting was stolen from the collection in 2008.

Recall that the work of the museum's collection may belong to the hand of the Renaissance genius, Ostrovsky zayavilv November 2009. According to him, specialists found on canvas "typical Titian strokes. The museum director has promised that it would be an X-ray portrait, which will help to establish its author.

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Tiziano Vecellio was born in 1477 in Italy (Pieve di Cadore in the province of Belluno). Place of birth is sometimes called da Cadore. Also known as Titian Divine.
It is considered one of the greatest Italian painters of the Renaissance. Titian's name is on a par with the genius of the Renaissance Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael.
Titian painted on biblical and mythological subjects, he became famous as a portraitist. He made by King and Pope, cardinals, dukes and princes. Titian was not even thirty years old when he recognized the best painter in Venice.
His hands are responsible for such pictures as Salome with the head of John the Baptist (1515), Ascension of the Virgin (1518), Venus (1538), etc.
The artist died of plague in Venice August 27, 1576, infected by her son, taking care of him.
In honor of Titian named a crater on Mercury.
Titian are stored in the greatest art galleries around the world. To date, his own created Titian found about 300 pictures.
The cost of paintings by Titian at the moment is calculated in millions of dollars. Several years ago, painting Diana and Actaeon cost the National Gallery in London and Scotland in the £ 50 million.

On materials of IA MOST-Odessa
Photo: most-odessa.info
Portrait of a Venetian Doge Girolamo Priuli, fragmentOb this Ostrovsky told IA MOST-Odessa on Friday.