Griswold Cast Iron Lamb Mold

by Titian, "Sorrows with open hands."

The original work was done by the Master of Pieve di Cadore in 1554. This is an oil painting on marble cm. 68 x 53.
Designed in the same year the Emperor Charles V, now belongs to the collections of the Prado Museum in Madrid.

"Titian was really most excellent of all who have painted, as his brushes always gave birth expressions of life. I said Giacomo Palma the Younger ... that this would lower his paintings with such a mass of colors, which were used (say) to bed, according to the expressions above that then they had to make, and I have seen too ' I de 'shots rissoles with massive strokes of color, sometimes of a smear of red earth outspoken, and he needed (as if to say) for half-tone, sometimes with a splash of white lead, with the same brush, dyed red , black and yellow, formed the importance of a clear doctrine of these maxims, and was four strokes occur in the promise of a rare figure ... "

(Excerpt from The rich mines of Venetian painting M. Boschini, 1674 - by reading TIZIANO - Rizzoli Art Classics).

Reproduction (2010) - dedicated to the ANC / Rome, Sec. Montesacro - is an oil painting on a colored gouache. The media is a paperboard cm. 45.5 x 43.5.