Titian's Pietro Aretino Frick Diptych
Titian's Pietro Aretino Frick Diptych An essay by Xavier F. Author of lives of saints, scurrilous verses, comedies, tragedies, and innumerable letters, Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) attained…
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Titian's Pietro Aretino Frick Diptych
An essay by Xavier F. Author of lives of saints, scurrilous verses, comedies, tragedies, and innumerable letters, Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) attained considerable wealth and influence, in part through literary flattery and blackmail. Salomon, Frick Curator, paired with a contribution by author Francine Prose bring to life one of Titian's most personal and revealing portraits.
Among Aretino's friends and patrons were some of the most prominent figures of his time, several of whom gave him gold chains such as the one he wears in this portrait. Little is known of his early years, but by 1527 he had settled permanently in Venice. He was on intimate terms with Titian, who painted at least three portraits of him.
Here the artist conveys his friend's intellectual power through the keen, forceful head and his worldliness through the solid, weighty mass of the richly robed
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