Die Madonna des Hauses Pesaro (nach Tizian),

1872

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

399 x 229 cm

Displayed

Sammlung Schack Saal 11

Department

19. Jahrhundert

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

11681

Acquisition

1872 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München

Citation

August Wolf, Die Madonna des Hauses Pesaro (nach Tizian), 1872, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/A9xlyzeLWv (Last updated on 19.06.2023)

Titian’s painting depicts the enthroned Virgin and Child accompanied by saints and by donors from the Pesaro family. In 1855 Jacob Burckhardt described this, the artist’s principal religious work, as the ‘most important and most beautiful of all presentation paintings, in which Titian set for the entire subsequent period a new standard in the approach to such subjects with regard to pictorial laws governing sequences of groups and colours in open, airy space’. When making his copy, Wolf had to contend with the poor lighting conditions in the church and the original’s imperfect state of preservation.