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Titian , Italian, c.1488-1576

Title

Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (c.1478-1529), Diplomat and Author

Datec.1536-1538

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions

124 x 97 cm

Credit LineBequeathed, Sir Hugh Lane, 1918

Object numberNGI.782

Exhibition HistoryCentenary Exhibition, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, October - December 1964

From Titian to Delacroix: Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Ireland, Yokohama Sogo Museum of Art, 25 August 1993 - 17 October 1993; Chiba Sogo Museum of Art, 10 November 1993 - 20 December 1993; Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, 5 January 1994 - 20 February 1994; Kobe City Museum, 25 February 1994 - 10 April 1994; Isetan Museum of Art, 14 April 1994 - 24 May 1994

European Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Ireland, National Gallery, Canberra, 25 June 1994 - 3 October 1994; Art Gallery of New South Wales, 21 October 1994 - 15 January 1995

Voyage en Italie, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, 30 March - 29 July 2001

Victoria Colonna, the Muse of Michelangelo, Kunthistoisches Museum, 25 February - 25 May 1997; Casa Buonarroti, Florence, 6 June - 15 September 1997

Titian to Caravaggio, Palazzo Del Te, 4 September 2004 - 9 January 2005

Tiziano Alle Corti D’Europa, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, 24 March 2006 – 4 June 2006

Label TextBaldassare Castiglione was an Italian poet, humanist and ambassador who is most famous for his book The Book of the Courtier (1528). The book, published less than a year before his death, functioned as a manual on how to conduct oneself in the royal courts of Renaissance Italy. Castiglione was well-placed to offer such advice as he had served in the courts of Mantua and Urbino. Titian, a northern Italian artist, achieved international fame for his portraits in which he captured both a likeness and the psychological state of the sitter.