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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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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