Portrait of guidobaldo ii della rovere (1514-1574) and his son francesco maria ii della rovere, duke of urbino (1549-1631). "this portrait is one of only a handful of whole-lengths by titian. Venetian convention discouraged statements of the kind and, with the possible exception of the portrait in the uffizi (wethey, op. Cit. , no. 52), wrongly identified as of diego hurtado de mendoza, all the artist’s whole-lengths are of sitters of elevated rank: the three portraits of the emperor charles v (madrid, prado; and munich, alte pinakothek); that of his son, king philip ii of spain (fig. 2; madrid, prado), of which there are two partly autograph variants (naples, museo di capodimonte; and florence, palazzo pitti); the portrait of giovanni francesco acquaviva d’aragona, exiled duke of atri (kassel, staatliche kunstsammlung); that of cardinal cristoforo madruzzo, who exercised secular power as bishop of trent (sao paolo, museu de arte de são paulo); the allocution of alfonso d’avalos, marchese del vasto (madrid, prado); the vendramin family in adoration of a relic of the true cross (london, national gallery), a statement of religious devotion as much as a strict portrait group; the farnese group (referred to above); and the present picture, which is the only work of the kind not held by a public institution. " [1]. Object Type: painting. Date: 16th century. Dimensions: height: 198 cm (77.9 in); width: 113 cm (44.4 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Unidentified location. Double portrait of Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, and his son, Francesco Maria II
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