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Description: | A Spanish copy of a portrait of the Roman empress Aelia Paetina, wife of Tiberius. Titian created the original series of paintings of Roman emperors around 1537-1538 for Duke Federigo Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua. In 1627-1628, the Mantuan government sold the set to Charles I of England. Eventually they ended up in a collection in Spain, where they were all destroyed in a fire in 1734, leaving Aegidius and Marcus Sadeler's etchings as the major record of the appearance of the original paintings. The engraver Aegidius Sadeler copied the Titians and this version closely resembles his print of 'Aelia Petina Claudii Vxor', Plate X in his edition on the Roman Emperors and Empresses. The companion portraits of the lavishly attired Roman Empresses were not, however, engraved after original works by Titian. The scholar Harold Wethey surmises that these prints §must be Sadeler's own invention, since they have nothing to do with Titian,§ but a more plausible explanation is that they were most likely engraved after paintings by Hans von Achen (1152-1615) and Bartholomeus Spranger (1546-1611), official artists of the Bohemian court of Rudolf II. | Subjects: | portrait (Aelia Paetina) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Spanish School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to after Titian (Italian painter and draftsman, ca. 1488-1576) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8734... | Go to resource |
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