The Crowning with Thorns (Titian)

The Crowning with Thorns

Artist	Titian
Year	1542-1543
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	303 cm × 180 cm (119 in × 71 in)
Location	Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Crowning with Thorns is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian. It is housed in the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France.

It was commissioned by the confraternity of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It was brought to France after the Napoleonic conquest of the city in 1797.

External links

Official website page (French)

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) Portrait of Queen Christina of Denmark (1555-1556) 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)