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A composition of Venus and Adonis by the Venetian Renaissance artist Titian has been painted a number of times, by Titian himself, by his studio assistants and by others. In all there are some thirty versions that may date from the 16th century, the nudity of Venus undoubtedly accounting for this popularity. It is unclear which of the surviving versions, if any, is the original or prime version, and a matter of debate how much involvement Titian himself had with surviving versions.

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La Bella is a portrait of a woman by Titian in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The painting shows the subject with the ideal proportions for Renaissance women. In parallel the stringent composition corresponds to Titian's real portraits.

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The Portrait of Pietro Aretino is an oil on canvas portrait of the Renaissance poet Pietro Aretino by Titian, painted around 1545, possibly for Cosimo I de' Medici. It is now in the Sala di Venere of Palazzo Pitti in Florence. Titian painted two other portraits of Aretino: a 1527 portrait in the Kunstmuseum Basel, and a 1537 portrait in the Frick Collection.

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Bacchus and Ariadne (1520 to 1523) is an oil painting by Titian. It is one of a cycle of paintings on mythological subjects produced for Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, for the Camerino d'Alabastro, a private room in his palazzo in Ferrara decorated with paintings based on classical texts. An advance payment was given to Raphael, who originally held the commission for the subject of a Triumph of Bacchus.

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Woman with a Mirror is an oil on canvas painting by Titian, dated to c. Also known as Woman at Her Toilet, it is held in the Musée du Louvre, in Paris. It is known to have been in the Gonzaga family's collection in Mantua from which it was bought by Charles I of England.

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Man with a Glove is an oil-on-canvas portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian, painted c. It is part of the collections of the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The work originates from the Gonzaga family's collection at Mantua.

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The Portrait of Charles V with a Dog is a portrait by Titian of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor with a hunting dog, created in 1533. It passed from Charles to the Spanish royal collection, from which it came to the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. It is a copy or reinterpretation of a portrait of the Emperor painted in 1532 by Jakob Seisenegger.

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The Worship of Venus is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Titian completed between 1518 and 1519, housed at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. It describes a Roman rite of worship conducted in honour of the goddess Venus each 1 April. On this occasion, women would make offerings to representations of the goddess so as to cleanse "every blemish on their bodies".