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|  Titian: Doge Andrea Gritti, 1546/48 Source: Artcyclopedia; photograph by Michael Weinberg
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Titian Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Titian at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan 2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Danae
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 8 works by Titian
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 5 works online by Titian
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Alfonso d'Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, in Armor with a Page
Kress Foundation Collection (Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans) Portrait of a Friend of Titian (Portrait of a Gentleman), ca.1550 The Adoration of the Child, ca.1507-08
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 4 paintings online; see the "Italy 15th - 16th centuries" section
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Titian at the Louvre Museum, Paris Battle of Spoleto, ca.1538
Titian at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Entombment of Christ, ca.1520
Titian at the Louvre Museum, Paris Man with a Glove, ca.1520
Titian at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Pastoral Concert, ca.1509
Titian at the Louvre Museum, Paris Woman with a Mirror, ca.1515
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  Skip forward to about page 5 for a number of works on paper by Tiziano Vecellio
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!  Venus and the Lute Player
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!  Dozens of works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Drawings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Titian at the Prado Museum, Madrid In-depth analysis of Titian's Emperor Carlos V on Horseback
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW! (Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Study for the figure of Saint Sebastian of the altar piece in SS. Nazaro e Celso
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Vatican Museums, Vatican City Madonna with Child and Saints
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)  Tarquinius und Lucretia, ca.1570-76
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW! Portrait of Philip Ii
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK "When is a Titian a repe-Titian?"
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 5 works by or related to the artist
Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Parma, Italy Sacra conversazione
Frick Collection, New York City NEW! Landscape with a Satyr Pietro Aretino Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap
Galleria Borghese, Rome Sacred and Profane Love
Galleria Borghese, Rome Ritratto di violinista
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome Salome with the head of the John the Baptist
Galleria G. Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venice (in Italian)  Venere allo specchio
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (mostly in Italian)  La presentazione della Vergine al Tempio San Giovanni Battista
Glasgow Museums, Scotland The adulteress brought before Christ
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Giorgio Cornaro with a Falcon, ca.1537
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)  Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Marche Region Museums, Italy Apparition of the Virgin
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  The Temptation of Christ, ca.1525-30
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French) 
Musei Civici di Ascoli Piceno, Marche Region, Italy (in Italian)  San Francesco riceve le stimmate
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain (in Spanish)  El Condestable de Borbón
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish) 
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese) 
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona Girl Before a Mirror
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Boy with dogs in a landsape, ca.1565
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German) 
National Brukenthal Museum, Romania
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Portrait of Pietro Aretino
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Sacred conversation: Mother and Child, St Catherine
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia A monk with a book
National Museums Liverpool, UK Supper at Emmaus
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England Angel (Putto)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh The Adoration of the Child, ca.1507-08
Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French) 
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy (in Italian)  Cardinal Pietro Bembo, ca.1545
Palazzo Ducale, Venice (in Italian)  La Vergine col Bambino e due angeli
Palazzo Ducale, Venice (in Italian)  Il doge Antonio Grimani davanti alla Fede, 1575-76 (detail)
Palazzo Ducale, Venice (in Italian)  San Cristoforo, 1523-24
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian) 
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Pinacoteca Civica Francesco Podesti, Ancona, Italy (in Italian)  Madonna col bambino (Pala Gozzi)
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (in Italian)  Gesů Cristo e il buon ladrone
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida La Sultana Rossa, 1550s
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Christ Shown to the People (Ecce Homo), ca.1570-76
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
State Museums of Berlin
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy Many works online
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  Adoration of the Magi
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  Click "Immagini" to see 2 large images from a 2004-2005 exhibition
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW! Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Titian at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Villa del Principe, Palazzo di Andrea Doria, Genoa, Italy Click the "right" arrow a few times
Virtual Uffizi Saint Margaret
Virtual Uffizi 9 paintings online
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 8 works online when last checked
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Titian  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
ARTnews "Disharmony in the Concert"
Frieze Magazine Review (from issue 114): Late Titian
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Giacoma Doria, ca.1531
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Vendramin Family, 1543-47
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Pietá, ca.1575-76
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "The god of big things", 2003 review by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard "Last chance for Titian", 2008 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard "Titian taken to the cleaners at the National Gallery", 2009 article by Brian Sewell
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK Lucian Freud on Titian's Diana and Callisto and Diana and Actaeon
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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 The Life of Titian (1642)
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 Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto
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 Titian and Venetian Painting, 1450-1590
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