The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (Titian)

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Artist	Titian
Year	c. 1558
Type	oil on canvas
Dimensions	493 cm × 277 cm (194 in × 109 in)
Location	I Gesuiti, Venice

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence is a 1558 painting by Titian, now in the church of I Gesuiti in Venice. It so impressed Philip II of Spain that he commissioned a second version in 1567 for the basilica at El Escorial.

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)