File:Titian - Allegorie der Zeit.jpg
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Summary
| Titian: Allegory of Prudence
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painting |
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| Genre |
allegory |
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| Description |
The three heads allude to the three ages of man: youth, maturity and old age; left: Titian at old age; middle: his son Orazio, who died of the plague the same year as Titian; right: his cousin and heir: Marco Vecellio, *1545; the triple-headed beast - Wolf, lion and dog - is a Symbol of prudence. |
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circa |
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| Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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| Dimensions |
height: 75.5 cm (29.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+75.50U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+68.40U174728 |
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| Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q180788 |
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| Current location |
2nd floor room 06 Ferrara and Bologna - currently closed 2014-09 |
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| Accession number |
NG6376 |
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| Credit line | Presented by Betty and David Koetser, 1966 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions |
Caption:
Ex praeterito praesens prudenter agit, ni futura actione deturpet
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| Source/Photographer |
National Gallery, London - online catalogue. |
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| current | 13:19, 23 June 2025 | 7,548 × 8,432 (35.88 MB) | wikimediacommons>Stv26 | Original picture from the same page at London's National Gallery, no other changes. |
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