Titian: Love, Desire, Death

Titian’s sensuous interpretation of Classical myths of love, temptation, and punishment.

In 1551, Prince Philip of Spain, the future King Philip II, commissioned Titian, the most famous painter in Europe, to produce a group of paintings showing Classical myths primarily taken from the Roman poet Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’.

The exhibition reunites five of the six paintings in the series, from Boston, Madrid, and London, for the first time in over three centuries. Included are ‘Diana and Actaeon’ and ‘Diana and Callisto’; works we own jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland. via nationalgallery.org.uk

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