Tag: Titian

  • Rethinking pink

    A corporate and trademarked invention, Barbie Pink is still marketed as the colour of perpetual happiness. Tracing the multiple iterations of pink through art history, however, reveals more complex meanings

  • Fruits of the Spirit: Art from the Heart

    A virtual exhibition that leaves one visitor feeling more like a student on completing an essay than a gallery-goer having had a visceral encounter with 18 fabulous works of art

  • Saba Farhoudnia: Reflection

    Reflecting on violence, particularly against women and minorities, Farhoudnia’s paintings force us to see that the stories depicted in her works concern all of us and that we should not take freedom of choice for granted

  • Murillo: The Self-Portraits

    A small number of Murillo’s rare portraits are brought together at the National Gallery to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the artist’s birth. But what can the only two self-portraits he painted tell us of the man himself?

  • In the Age of Giorgione

    This exhibition endeavours to pin down a phantom of art history, a man whose paintings are so elusive that his influence is almost the stuff of myth

  • The Sultan’s World: The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art

    East meets west in this dazzling show, which focuses on the attraction the Ottoman empire held for western artists for more than two centuries. This jewel of an exhibition brings together art and valuable objects rarely seen in such abundance

  • Metamorphosis: Titian 2012

    Human history, and by extension the history of art, is a history of transfiguration, of translation, of constant modification. The assumption that we live in a perpetual state of metamorphosis, a continual shifting of one element of reality in relation…

  • Titian

    National Gallery, London, 19 February-18 May 2003