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Danae with Cupid (Museo di Capodimonte)

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Title: Danae with Cupid (Museo di Capodimonte)

Date work started: 1544

Date work completed: 1546

Place created: Venice

Patron: Cardinal Alessandro Farnese

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Material: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 118.5cm X 170.0cm

Genre: myth

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    Sequence: Itinerary 1 of 16

    Owner Name: Titian

    In possession from: 1544 to 1545

    Location: Casa Grande

    Notes:

    Titian began working on the painting in Venice, but completed it when he arrived in Rome in 1545. Giovanni della Casa, papal legate to Venice, wrote about the painting to its patron Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. He wrote that it will "make the nude that Your Reverence saw in the dwelling of the duke of Urbino in Pesaro look like a nun by comparison.” He is referring to the "Venus of Urbino."

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 178.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 2 of 16

    Owner Name: Cardinal Alessandro Farnese

    In possession from: 1545 to 1581

    Location: Palazzo Farnese

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 3 of 16

    Owner Name: Farnese

    In possession from: 1581 to 1680

    Location: Palazzo Farnese

    Notes:

    Citations: Wethey, Harold E. , The Paintings of Titian, v. 3 : The Mythological and Historical Paintings, (London: Phaidon, 1975) p. 132.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 4 of 16

    Owner Name: Farnese

    In possession from: 1680 to 1734

    Location: Palazzo del Giardino

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) page 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 5 of 16

    Owner Name: Charles VII

    In possession from: 1734 to 1759

    Location: Royal Palace

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) page 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 6 of 16

    Owner Name: Ferdinand IV of Naples

    In possession from: 1759 to 1798

    Location: Palazzo di Capodimonte

    Notes:

    Also kept at times during this time period at the royal palace at Portici.

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 7 of 16

    Owner Name: Ferdinand IV of Naples

    In possession from: 1798 to 1815

    Location: Palazzo dei Normanni

    Notes:

    Wethey says the painting was transferred to Palermo in 1798.

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 8 of 16

    Owner Name: Ferdinand IV of Naples

    In possession from: 1815 to 1943

    Location: Palazzo di Capodimonte

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 9 of 16

    Owner Name: Museo di Capodimonte

    In possession from: 1943 to 1943

    Location: Monte Cassino

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 10 of 16

    Owner Name: Hermann Goering Division

    In possession from: 1943 to 1944

    Location: Berlin

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 11 of 16

    Owner Name: Hermann Goering Division

    In possession from: 1944 to 1945

    Location: Carinhall

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 12 of 16

    Owner Name: Hermann Goering Division

    In possession from: 1944 to 1945

    Location: Kurfurst

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 13 of 16

    Owner Name: Hermann Goering Division

    In possession from: 1945 to 1945

    Location: Reichschancellery

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 14 of 16

    Owner Name: Hermann Goering Division

    In possession from: 1945 to 1945

    Location: Altaussee

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 15 of 16

    Owner Name:

    In possession from: 1945 to 1947

    Location: Munich Central Collecting Point

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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    Sequence: Itinerary 16 of 16

    Owner Name: Museo di Capodimonte

    In possession from: 1947 to Present

    Location: Museo di Capodimonte

    Notes:

    Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) pg. 293.

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