The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

Titianca. 1540

Details

Title: The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
Creator: Attributed to Giovanni Britto after Titian
Date Created: ca. 1540
Print State: First state
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1964
Materials & Techniques: Woodcut
Keywords: male portraits, portraits, royalty
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Bibliography: Bartsch 1 (vol. 12, p. 140); Mauroner 11; Rosand and Muraro, 1976, p. 46, “The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500–1558)” after a drawing by Titian who met the Habsburg Ruler in 1530; Giovanni Brito (?), Emperor Charles V, 1532/33, Katalog Sonderausstellung Karl V, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1958, no. 148 (reproduced); Rosand and Muraro, cat. 46, "itian and the Venetian Woodcut, International Exhibitions Foundation exhibition, 1976–77 (National Gallery of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Detroit Institute of Arts); Mauroner 11; reproduced in Harold Wethey, Titian and His Drawings (Princeton University Press, 1987.
Associated People: Attributed to Giovanni Britto (German, ca. 1500 - after 1550), After Titian (Italian (Venetian), ca. 1488 - 1576)
Accession Number: 1964.14.1

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