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  • 1. In which country was the artist Titian born?
A) Spain
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) France
  • 2. What was Titian's full name?
A) Raphael Sanzio
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Michelangelo Buonarroti
D) Tiziano Vecellio
  • 3. Titian was known for his mastery in which style of art?
A) Cubism
B) Renaissance
C) Baroque
D) Modern
  • 4. What city did Titian primarily work in for most of his career?
A) Paris
B) Florence
C) Venice
D) Rome
  • 5. What year did Titian pass away?
A) 1500
B) 1576
C) 1600
D) 1700
  • 6. What was the name of Titian's daughter who became a painter in her own right?
A) Sophia
B) Isabella
C) Lavinia
D) Artemisia
  • 7. Which famous mythological figure did Titian often depict in his paintings?
A) Atlas
B) Hercules
C) Athena
D) Venus
  • 8. Which famous literary figure did Titian's portrait 'Ariosto' depict?
A) Dante Alighieri
B) John Milton
C) William Shakespeare
D) Ludovico Ariosto
  • 9. Titian's use of color and brushwork had a significant influence on which art movement?
A) Minimalism
B) Impressionism
C) Baroque
D) Surrealism
  • 10. What was the name of the technique Titian used to create soft, blended transitions between colors?
A) Chiaroscuro
B) Grisaille
C) Sfumato
D) Impasto
  • 11. What was Tiziano Vecellio's Latinized name?
A) Vecellius
B) Ticiano
C) Titianus
D) Bellinianus
  • 12. Who was considered alongside Giorgione as a founder of the Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting?
A) Titian
B) Michelangelo
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Raphael
  • 13. What was Titian's most important masterpiece completed in 1516 for the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari?
A) The School of Athens
B) The Birth of Venus
C) The Assumption of the Virgin
D) The Last Supper
  • 14. Which artist described Titian as 'the sun amidst small stars'?
A) Raphael
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo
D) Michelangelo
  • 15. What was the subject of Titian's painting 'The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr'?
A) The Resurrection
B) The Crucifixion
C) Saint Peter Martyr being assassinated
D) The Last Judgement
  • 16. What was the name of Titian's villa located on Manza Hill?
A) Villa Vecellio
B) Palazzo Bellini
C) Castello Roganzuolo
D) Titian's mill at Collontola
  • 17. Which painting by Titian depicts Bacchus falling in love with Ariadne?
A) Venus and Adonis
B) Bacchus and Ariadne
C) Diana and Actaeon
D) The Birth of Venus
  • 18. In which year did Titian complete the 'Equestrian Portrait of Charles V'?
A) 1533
B) 1565
C) 1548
D) 1550
  • 19. What was the profession of Titian's father, Gregorio Vecellio?
A) Notary
B) Soldier
C) Painter
D) Timber merchant and mine manager
  • 20. Which painting by Titian was commissioned for the Camerino d'Alabastro in the Ducal Palace, Ferrara?
A) The School of Athens
B) The Birth of Venus
C) The Bacchanal of the Andrians
D) The Last Supper
  • 21. Who was Titian's first master according to Ludovico Dolce?
A) Gentile Bellini
B) Giovanni Bellini
C) Giorgione
D) Sebastiano Zuccato
  • 22. What was the subject of Titian's painting 'The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin'?
A) Presentation of Mary at the Temple
B) Nativity
C) Birth of Jesus
D) Annunciation to Mary
  • 23. Which city did Titian visit in 1545-1546 and was honored with the freedom of the city?
A) Florence
B) Rome
C) Milan
D) Venice
  • 24. What was Titian's annual pension from Charles V in 1548?
A) 200 scudi
B) 50 ducats
C) 100 scudi
D) 300 ducats
  • 25. Which painting by Titian is known as 'The Venus of Urbino'?
A) The Birth of Venus
B) Diana and Actaeon
C) A reclining nude portrait of a woman
D) Venus and Mars
  • 26. Which artist's work did Titian study for his composition of 'The Assumption of the Virgin'?
A) Andrea Mantegna
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Raphael
D) Michelangelo
  • 27. What was the theme of Titian's painting 'The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr'?
A) A mythological battle
B) A proto-Baroque depiction with extreme violence and a dramatic landscape
C) A serene religious scene
D) A peaceful pastoral landscape
  • 28. Which mythological text inspired most of Titian's 'Poesie' series?
A) Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
B) Dante's Divine Comedy
C) Virgil's Aeneid
D) Ovid's mythological narrative texts
  • 29. Which imperial court did Titian visit that influenced the new dimensions in his production?
A) Rome
B) Venice
C) Augsburg
D) Madrid
  • 30. What does 'Titian hair' refer to?
A) Brown hair
B) Blonde hair
C) Red hair, almost always on women
D) Black hair
  • 31. What was Titian's relationship with Sebastiano del Piombo concerning the office of piombotore?
A) He declined the position offered three times
B) He never knew about the offer
C) He held the position until his death
D) He accepted it once and then resigned
  • 32. Who was Titian's first wife?
A) A noblewoman from Venice
B) An artist from Florence
C) A merchant's daughter
D) Cecilia, a barber's daughter from Pieve di Cadore
  • 33. Which artist was employed by Titian in his last years according to Giulio Clovio?
A) El Greco (or Dominikos Theotokopoulos)
B) Bonifazio Veronese
C) Paris Bordone
D) Tintoretto
  • 34. Who acquired the Pietà around 1581?
A) Palma il Giovane
B) Pomponio
C) Augusto Gentili
D) Cornelio Sarcinelli
  • 35. What was the total number of surviving Titian works as per Humfrey's list?
A) Two hundred eighty
B) Two hundred fifty
C) Three hundred twenty
D) Three hundred ten
  • 36. Who created the monument to honor Titian at his original burial site?
A) Orazio Vecellio
B) Luigi Zandomeneghi
C) Pietro Aretino
D) Francesco Vecellio
  • 37. Who was the influential figure that became a close friend of Titian in Venice?
A) Federico II Gonzaga
B) Emperor Charles V
C) Pietro Aretino
D) Jacopo Sansovino
  • 38. Who succeeded Emperor Ferdinand I in commissioning the monument to Titian?
A) Charles V
B) Luigi Zandomeneghi
C) Franz Joseph
D) Pietro Aretino
  • 39. Which painting by Titian is known as 'The Farnese Danaë'?
A) The Birth of Venus
B) Venus and Mars
C) Diana and Actaeon
D) A depiction of Danaë with a golden shower
  • 40. How many children did Lavinia bear whose names are known?
A) Five
B) Six
C) Four
D) Three
  • 41. Who was Lavinia married to?
A) Palma il Giovane
B) Cornelio Sarcinelli
C) Augusto Gentili
D) Pomponio
  • 42. How many lost works are recorded in paintings or print according to Joanna Woods-Marsden?
A) Twenty
B) Ten
C) Thirty
D) Fifteen
  • 43. Who authored 'Titian: His Life'?
A) Charles Hope
B) Sheila Hale
C) Bruce Cole
D) Cecil Gould
  • 44. In which period did Titian design woodcuts including one of The Drowning of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea?
A) 1540–1545
B) 1500–1505
C) 1515–1520
D) 1525–1530
  • 45. Who did Titian introduce to his patrons to ensure his legacy?
A) Palma il Giovane
B) Pomponio
C) Cornelio Sarcinelli
D) Orazio
  • 46. Who followed Cornelis Cort from about 1558 to 1568 in producing engravings based on Titian's works?
A) Domenico Campagnola
B) Bruce Cole
C) Carlo Ridolfi
D) Martino Rota
  • 47. What could have been the total number of paintings if all works from Titian's workshop were included?
A) Three hundred sixty
B) Two hundred eighty
C) Four hundred fifty
D) Six hundred
  • 48. In which year did the National Gallery and National Galleries of Scotland jointly buy 'Diana and Callisto'?
A) 2012
B) 2015
C) 2009
D) 2010
  • 49. What was the subject of Titian's painting 'Allegory of Marriage'?
A) A landscape
B) A depiction involving Alfonso d'Avalos, his wife, and son
C) A religious event
D) A mythological scene
  • 50. Which artist engraved Titian's drawings based on his paintings much later in the artist's career?
A) Cornelis Cort
B) Domenico Campagnola
C) Martino Rota
D) Charles Hope
  • 51. What was the dowry provided by Cornelio for Lavinia's marriage?
A) 1,000 ducats
B) 1,400 ducats
C) 1,600 ducats
D) 1,200 ducats
  • 52. Who collaborated with Titian to produce additional prints based on his paintings and drawings?
A) Carlo Ridolfi
B) Martino Rota
C) Domenico Campagnola
D) Cornelis Cort
  • 53. When was the deadline originally set for purchasing 'Diana and Actaeon'?
A) 28 February 2009
B) 30 November 2008
C) 31 January 2009
D) 31 December 2008
  • 54. Who deemed The Flaying of Marsyas a work by Titian's hand in 1909?
A) Frimmel
B) Nygran
C) Robertson
D) Augusto Gentili
  • 55. What was the name of Titian's last painting installed in 1575?
A) The Presentation at the Temple
B) The Crucifixion
C) The Pietà
D) The Assumption of the Virgin
  • 56. What was the dowry provided by Cornelio for their daughter Helena?
A) 1,400 ducats
B) 1,000 ducats
C) 1,200 ducats
D) 1,600 ducats
  • 57. What was the size of the Pietà painting?
A) 378 centimetres x 348 centimetres
B) 400 centimetres x 360 centimetres
C) 350 centimetres x 340 centimetres
D) 300 centimetres x 320 centimetres
  • 58. Which painting by Titian was influenced by contact with ancient sculpture?
A) Diana and Actaeon
B) The Last Supper
C) The Birth of Venus
D) Venus-and-the-Organ-Player
  • 59. What was the purchase price of 'Diana and Actaeon'?
A) $40 million
B) $60 million
C) $50 million
D) $30 million
  • 60. Which artist was brought to Titian's studio by his father?
A) El Greco
B) Tintoretto
C) Paris Bordone
D) Bonifazio Veronese
  • 61. What did Titian's late style emphasize according to Tom Nichols?
A) Monochromatic palettes
B) Coloring (colorito) over mere color (colore)
C) Linear drawing techniques
D) Sculptural modeling
  • 62. In which year did Titian marry off his daughter Lavinia?
A) 1575
B) 1545
C) 1555
D) 1565
  • 63. How many pieces of canvas were stitched together to create the Pietà?
A) Eight
B) Six
C) Five
D) Seven
  • 64. What was a major controversy regarding the purchase of 'Diana and Actaeon'?
A) There were legal disputes over ownership.
B) Politicians argued that the money could have been spent more wisely during a recession.
C) It was bought at an inflated price.
D) The painting was not authenticated properly.
  • 65. What was the subject of Titian's painting 'Ecce Homo'?
A) Christ presented to the people by Pilate
B) The Last Supper
C) The Crucifixion
D) The Resurrection
  • 66. Who was part of the aesthetically refined audience in the 16th century that appreciated Titian's art?
A) Religious leaders
B) Foreign diplomats
C) Common citizens of Venice
D) Mainly fellow artists
  • 67. What is depicted on the coat-of-arms behind the votive tablet in the Pietà?
A) The double-headed Habsburg eagle
B) A lion rampant
C) An eagle with a crown
D) A dragon
  • 68. Which fund contributed $10 million for the purchase of 'Diana and Actaeon'?
A) The National Heritage Memorial Fund
B) The Tate Modern Endowment
C) The Royal Collection Trust
D) The British Museum Trust
  • 69. Which city did Titian cross the Alps to visit Charles V?
A) Italy
B) France
C) Spain
D) Germany
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