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Description: | A Spanish copy of a portrait of the Roman emperor Nero by Titian. Titian created the original series of paintings 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 'Nero' in his edition on the Roman Emperors and Empresses. | Subjects: | portrait (Nero) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Titian (Italian painter and draftsman, ca. 1488-1576) Æ After Attributed to Spanish School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8734... | Go to resource |
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