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Titian: Allegory of Prudence  wikidata:Q2528145 reasonator:Q2528145
Artist
Titian (1490–1576)  wikidata:Q47551 s:it:Autore:Tiziano q:en:Titian
 
Titian
Alternative names
Tiziano Vecellio; Tiziano Vecelli; Tiziano Vecellio di Gregorio; Titianus, Tiziano da Cador
Description Italian painter, draftsperson, architectural draftsperson, printmaker and visual artist
Date of birth/death between 1485 and 1490
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1485-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1490-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 27 August 1576 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Pieve di Cadore Edit this at Wikidata Venice Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Venice, Ferrara, Mantua, Padua (1511), Milan (1540), Rome (from 1545 until 1546
date QS:P,+1545-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1545-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1546-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
), Florence (1546), Augsburg (1548, from 1550 until 1551
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1551-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
), Constantinople (from 1555 until 1557
date QS:P,+1555-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1555-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1557-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
)
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q47551
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image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
An Allegory of Prudence Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lde,"Allegorie der Besonnenheit"
label QS:Len,"Allegory of Time Governed by Prudence"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre allegory Edit this at Wikidata
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.
Depicted people
Date circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 75.5 cm (29.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 68.4 cm (26.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+75.50U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+68.40U174728
institution QS:P195,Q180788
Current location
2nd floor room 06 Ferrara and Bologna - currently closed 2014-09
Accession number
NG6376
Credit line Presented by Betty and David Koetser, 1966
Inscriptions

Caption:

Ex praeterito praesens prudenter agit, ni futura actione deturpet
References
Source/Photographer National Gallery, London - online catalogue.
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Allegory of Prudence (1550–1565). Oil on canvas, 76.2 × 68.6 cm (30.0 × 27.0 in). National Gallery, London

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