- The Death of Actaeon
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The Death of Actaeon 
Artist Titian Year c.1559-1575 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions 178.4 cm × 198.1 cm (70.2 in × 78.0 in) Location National Gallery, London The Death of Actaeon is a late work by Italian Renaissance master Titian, painted in 1559 to 1575 as an oil on canvas and now housed in the National Gallery of London, United Kingdom. It is probably one of the two paintings the artist states he has started and hopes to finish (one of which he calls "Actaeon mauled by hounds") in a letter to their commissioner Philip II of Spain during June 1559. However, most of Titian's work on this painting possibly dates to the mid-1560s.
The public campaign in 1971 to buy it for the United Kingdom was one of the great successes of Martin Davies's directorship of the National Gallery and it was eventually purchased in 1972 with a special grant and Art Fund and Pilgrim Trust contributions, as well as via funds raised by a public appeal. As catalogue number NG6420, it now usually hangs in the Central Hall.
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External links
- National Gallery catalogue
- Titians Campaign
- Essay on this painting from the book Beauty and Terror by Brian A. Oard
Titian (List of works) - Christ Carrying the Cross (1508–09 – also attributed to Giorgione)
- St. Mark Enthroned (c. 1510)
- Pastoral Concert (c. 1510 – also attributed to Giorgione)
- Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter (1506–11)
- A Man with a Quilted Sleeve (1510)
- Miracle of the Jealous Husband (1511)
- The Three Ages of Man (1512–13)
- Balbi Holy Conversation (c. 1512–1514)
- Woman at the Mirror (c. 1512–15)
- Sacred and Profane Love (1513–14)
- Tarquin and Lucretia (1515)
- Violante (c. 1515)
- Flora (c. 1515)
- Vanity (c. 1515)
- Salome (c. 1515)
- Young woman in a black dress (c. 1515)
- The Tribute Money (c. 1516)
- Assumption of the Virgin (1516–1518)
- The Worship of Venus (1518–20)
- Portrait of Vincenzo Mosti (c. 1520)
- Gozzi Altarpiece (1520)
- Venus Anadyomene (c. 1520)
- Malchiostro Annunciation (c. 1520)
- Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–23)
- Averoldi Polyptych (1520–22)
- Man with a Glove (c. 1520–23)
- The Bacchanal of the Andrians (1522–24)
- The Entombment (1525)
- Portrait of Federico II Gonzaga (c. 1529)
- The Madonna of the Rabbit (1530)
- Portrait of Charles V with a dog (1533)
- Penitent Magdalene (1533)
- Portrait of Giacomo Doria (1533–35)
- Portrait of Isabella d'Este (1534–36)
- Portrait of Ippolito de' Medici (1533)
- Venus of Urbino (1538)
- St. John the Baptist (1540)
- Portrait of Clarissa Strozzi (1542)
- The Crowning with Thorns (1542–43)
- Portrait of Pope Paul III (1543)
- Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1545)
- Portrait of Lavinia Vecellio (c. 1545)
- Self-Portrait (1546–47)
- Pope Paul III and his Grandsons (1545–46)
- The Tribute Money (1545–68)
- Equestrian Portrait of Charles V (1548)
- Portrait of Charles V (1548)
- Portrait of Isabella of Portugal (1548)
- The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (c. 1548–59)
- Philip II in Armour (1550)
- Venus and Adonis (c. 1553)
- Danaë (series) (1553–56)
- Mater Dolorosa (c. 1555)
- Diana and Actaeon (1556–59)
- Diana and Callisto (1556–59)
- Crucifixion (1558)
- The Entombment (1559)
- St Margaret and the Dragon (c. 1559)
- Annunciation (church of San Salvador) (1559–64)
- The Death of Actaeon (c. 1559–75)
- Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1560)
- Self-Portrait (c. 1560)
- Venus and Adonis (c. 1560)
- Penitent Magdalene (1565)
- Venus Blindfolding Cupid (c. 1565)
- Allegory of Prudence (c. 1565–70)
- Tarquin and Lucretia (1569–71)
- Punishment of Marsyas (1570–1576)
- Saint Sebastian (c. 1575)
- Saint Jerome in Penitence (1575)
- Pietà (1576)
Categories:- Titian paintings
- Collections of the National Gallery, London
- Paintings depicting Greek myths
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