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  • 1. In which country was the artist Titian born?
A) Italy
B) France
C) Spain
D) Germany
  • 2. What was Titian's full name?
A) Tiziano Vecellio
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Raphael Sanzio
D) Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • 3. Titian was known for his mastery in which style of art?
A) Modern
B) Baroque
C) Renaissance
D) Cubism
  • 4. What city did Titian primarily work in for most of his career?
A) Venice
B) Paris
C) Florence
D) Rome
  • 5. What year did Titian pass away?
A) 1600
B) 1576
C) 1500
D) 1700
  • 6. What was the name of Titian's daughter who became a painter in her own right?
A) Sophia
B) Artemisia
C) Lavinia
D) Isabella
  • 7. Which famous mythological figure did Titian often depict in his paintings?
A) Athena
B) Venus
C) Atlas
D) Hercules
  • 8. Which famous literary figure did Titian's portrait 'Ariosto' depict?
A) John Milton
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Ludovico Ariosto
D) William Shakespeare
  • 9. Titian's use of color and brushwork had a significant influence on which art movement?
A) Surrealism
B) Impressionism
C) Baroque
D) Minimalism
  • 10. What was the name of the technique Titian used to create soft, blended transitions between colors?
A) Chiaroscuro
B) Sfumato
C) Grisaille
D) Impasto
  • 11. What was Tiziano Vecellio's Latinized name?
A) Titianus
B) Bellinianus
C) Vecellius
D) Ticiano
  • 12. Who was considered alongside Giorgione as a founder of the Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting?
A) Raphael
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Titian
D) Michelangelo
  • 13. What was Titian's most important masterpiece completed in 1516 for the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari?
A) The Birth of Venus
B) The School of Athens
C) The Last Supper
D) The Assumption of the Virgin
  • 14. Which artist described Titian as 'the sun amidst small stars'?
A) Raphael
B) Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo
C) Michelangelo
D) Leonardo da Vinci
  • 15. What was the subject of Titian's painting 'The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr'?
A) The Last Judgement
B) The Resurrection
C) The Crucifixion
D) Saint Peter Martyr being assassinated
  • 16. What was the name of Titian's villa located on Manza Hill?
A) Titian's mill at Collontola
B) Castello Roganzuolo
C) Villa Vecellio
D) Palazzo Bellini
  • 17. Which painting by Titian depicts Bacchus falling in love with Ariadne?
A) Venus and Adonis
B) Diana and Actaeon
C) Bacchus and Ariadne
D) The Birth of Venus
  • 18. In which year did Titian complete the 'Equestrian Portrait of Charles V'?
A) 1533
B) 1548
C) 1565
D) 1550
  • 19. What was the profession of Titian's father, Gregorio Vecellio?
A) Soldier
B) Painter
C) Timber merchant and mine manager
D) Notary
  • 20. Which painting by Titian was commissioned for the Camerino d'Alabastro in the Ducal Palace, Ferrara?
A) The Bacchanal of the Andrians
B) The Birth of Venus
C) The School of Athens
D) The Last Supper
  • 21. Who was Titian's first master according to Ludovico Dolce?
A) Giovanni Bellini
B) Sebastiano Zuccato
C) Gentile Bellini
D) Giorgione
  • 22. What was the subject of Titian's painting 'The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin'?
A) Birth of Jesus
B) Annunciation to Mary
C) Presentation of Mary at the Temple
D) Nativity
  • 23. Which city did Titian visit in 1545-1546 and was honored with the freedom of the city?
A) Milan
B) Rome
C) Venice
D) Florence
  • 24. What was Titian's annual pension from Charles V in 1548?
A) 50 ducats
B) 100 scudi
C) 300 ducats
D) 200 scudi
  • 25. Which painting by Titian is known as 'The Venus of Urbino'?
A) A reclining nude portrait of a woman
B) Venus and Mars
C) The Birth of Venus
D) Diana and Actaeon
  • 26. Which artist's work did Titian study for his composition of 'The Assumption of the Virgin'?
A) Raphael
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Michelangelo
D) Andrea Mantegna
  • 27. What was the theme of Titian's painting 'The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr'?
A) A serene religious scene
B) A proto-Baroque depiction with extreme violence and a dramatic landscape
C) A peaceful pastoral landscape
D) A mythological battle
  • 28. Which mythological text inspired most of Titian's 'Poesie' series?
A) Ovid's mythological narrative texts
B) Dante's Divine Comedy
C) Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
D) Virgil's Aeneid
  • 29. Which imperial court did Titian visit that influenced the new dimensions in his production?
A) Rome
B) Augsburg
C) Venice
D) Madrid
  • 30. What does 'Titian hair' refer to?
A) Blonde hair
B) Red hair, almost always on women
C) Black hair
D) Brown 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 held the position until his death
C) He accepted it once and then resigned
D) He never knew about the offer
  • 32. Who was Titian's first wife?
A) A noblewoman from Venice
B) An artist from Florence
C) Cecilia, a barber's daughter from Pieve di Cadore
D) A merchant's daughter
  • 33. Which artist was employed by Titian in his last years according to Giulio Clovio?
A) Tintoretto
B) Paris Bordone
C) El Greco (or Dominikos Theotokopoulos)
D) Bonifazio Veronese
  • 34. Who acquired the Pietà around 1581?
A) Pomponio
B) Cornelio Sarcinelli
C) Palma il Giovane
D) Augusto Gentili
  • 35. What was the total number of surviving Titian works as per Humfrey's list?
A) Three hundred ten
B) Three hundred twenty
C) Two hundred eighty
D) Two hundred fifty
  • 36. Who created the monument to honor Titian at his original burial site?
A) Orazio Vecellio
B) Pietro Aretino
C) Luigi Zandomeneghi
D) Francesco Vecellio
  • 37. Who was the influential figure that became a close friend of Titian in Venice?
A) Jacopo Sansovino
B) Emperor Charles V
C) Federico II Gonzaga
D) Pietro Aretino
  • 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) Venus and Mars
B) The Birth of Venus
C) A depiction of Danaë with a golden shower
D) Diana and Actaeon
  • 40. How many children did Lavinia bear whose names are known?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Five
D) Six
  • 41. Who was Lavinia married to?
A) Pomponio
B) Augusto Gentili
C) Cornelio Sarcinelli
D) Palma il Giovane
  • 42. How many lost works are recorded in paintings or print according to Joanna Woods-Marsden?
A) Ten
B) Twenty
C) Thirty
D) Fifteen
  • 43. Who authored 'Titian: His Life'?
A) Charles Hope
B) Bruce Cole
C) Sheila Hale
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) 1525–1530
B) 1540–1545
C) 1515–1520
D) 1500–1505
  • 45. Who did Titian introduce to his patrons to ensure his legacy?
A) Cornelio Sarcinelli
B) Pomponio
C) Palma il Giovane
D) Orazio
  • 46. Who followed Cornelis Cort from about 1558 to 1568 in producing engravings based on Titian's works?
A) Carlo Ridolfi
B) Bruce Cole
C) Domenico Campagnola
D) Martino Rota
  • 47. What could have been the total number of paintings if all works from Titian's workshop were included?
A) Two hundred eighty
B) Six hundred
C) Three hundred sixty
D) Four hundred fifty
  • 48. In which year did the National Gallery and National Galleries of Scotland jointly buy 'Diana and Callisto'?
A) 2012
B) 2009
C) 2010
D) 2015
  • 49. What was the subject of Titian's painting 'Allegory of Marriage'?
A) A landscape
B) A mythological scene
C) A religious event
D) A depiction involving Alfonso d'Avalos, his wife, and son
  • 50. Which artist engraved Titian's drawings based on his paintings much later in the artist's career?
A) Cornelis Cort
B) Martino Rota
C) Domenico Campagnola
D) Charles Hope
  • 51. What was the dowry provided by Cornelio for Lavinia's marriage?
A) 1,600 ducats
B) 1,000 ducats
C) 1,200 ducats
D) 1,400 ducats
  • 52. Who collaborated with Titian to produce additional prints based on his paintings and drawings?
A) Carlo Ridolfi
B) Cornelis Cort
C) Martino Rota
D) Domenico Campagnola
  • 53. When was the deadline originally set for purchasing 'Diana and Actaeon'?
A) 30 November 2008
B) 31 December 2008
C) 28 February 2009
D) 31 January 2009
  • 54. Who deemed The Flaying of Marsyas a work by Titian's hand in 1909?
A) Frimmel
B) Nygran
C) Augusto Gentili
D) Robertson
  • 55. What was the name of Titian's last painting installed in 1575?
A) The Pietà
B) The Assumption of the Virgin
C) The Crucifixion
D) The Presentation at the Temple
  • 56. What was the dowry provided by Cornelio for their daughter Helena?
A) 1,200 ducats
B) 1,600 ducats
C) 1,000 ducats
D) 1,400 ducats
  • 57. What was the size of the Pietà painting?
A) 350 centimetres x 340 centimetres
B) 400 centimetres x 360 centimetres
C) 300 centimetres x 320 centimetres
D) 378 centimetres x 348 centimetres
  • 58. Which painting by Titian was influenced by contact with ancient sculpture?
A) The Birth of Venus
B) The Last Supper
C) Venus-and-the-Organ-Player
D) Diana and Actaeon
  • 59. What was the purchase price of 'Diana and Actaeon'?
A) $40 million
B) $30 million
C) $60 million
D) $50 million
  • 60. Which artist was brought to Titian's studio by his father?
A) Bonifazio Veronese
B) El Greco
C) Paris Bordone
D) Tintoretto
  • 61. What did Titian's late style emphasize according to Tom Nichols?
A) Monochromatic palettes
B) Sculptural modeling
C) Coloring (colorito) over mere color (colore)
D) Linear drawing techniques
  • 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) Seven
B) Five
C) Eight
D) Six
  • 64. What was a major controversy regarding the purchase of 'Diana and Actaeon'?
A) Politicians argued that the money could have been spent more wisely during a recession.
B) There were legal disputes over ownership.
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 Resurrection
C) The Last Supper
D) The Crucifixion
  • 66. Who was part of the aesthetically refined audience in the 16th century that appreciated Titian's art?
A) Foreign diplomats
B) Common citizens of Venice
C) Mainly fellow artists
D) Religious leaders
  • 67. What is depicted on the coat-of-arms behind the votive tablet in the Pietà?
A) A lion rampant
B) An eagle with a crown
C) The double-headed Habsburg eagle
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) Germany
D) Spain
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