Portrait of Pietro Aretino [SEP] creator
Portrait of Pietro Aretino
The Portrait of Pietro Aretino is a portrait of the Renaissance poet Pietro Aretino by Titian, painted around 1545, possibly for Cosimo I de' Medici. It is now in the sali di Venere of Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
his Grandsons", the "Portrait of Pietro Aretino" of the Pitti Palace, the "Portrait of Isabella of Portugal" (Madrid), and the series of Emperor Charles V of the same museum, the "Charles V with a Greyhound" (1533), and especially the "Equestrian Portrait of Charles V" (1548), an equestrian picture in a symphony of purples. This state portrait of Charles V (1548) at the Battle of Mühlberg established a new genre, that of the grand equestrian portrait