In 2008 he sold Titian's Diana and Actaeon to the National Gallery of Scotland and National Gallery in London for £ 50m.

The exact date of Titian's birth is uncertain ; when he was an old man he claimed in a letter to Philip II to have been born in 1474, but this seems most unlikely.

* In Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne ( 1523 ), the god's chariot is borne by cheetahs ( which were used as hunting animals in Renaissance Italy ).

The tapestry in the background is based on Titian's The Rape of Europa, or, more probably, the copy that Rubens painted in Madrid.

Hymnus amoris ( Hymn of Love ) ( 1897 ) is inspired by Titian's painting " The Miracle of a Jealous Husband " which Nielsen saw on his honeymoon in Italy in 1891.

Her lower torso semi-obscured by sheets, Danae appears more demure and gleeful than Titian's 1545 version of the same topic, where the rain is more accurately numismatic.

The picture is the prototype of Titian's own Venus of Urbino and of many more by other painters of the school ; but none of them attained the fame of the first exemplar.

It is exceedingly difficult and sometimes simply impossible to differentiate Titian's early works from those of Giorgione.

A painting by Paolo Veronese is in the collection of the Gallerie dell ' Accademia in Venice and Titian's Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto, using the battle as a background, hangs in the Prado in Madrid.

His portraits of Charles on horseback updated the grandeur of Titian's Emperor Charles V, but even more effective and original is his portrait of Charles dismounted in the Louvre: " Charles is given a totally natural look of instinctive sovereignty, in a deliberately informal setting where he strolls so negligently that he seems at first glance nature's gentleman rather than England's King ".

Titian's equestrian portrait of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor of 1548 led the way in applying the form to rulers, and Cosimo I de ' Medici by Giambologna in Florence ( completed 1598 ) is the first life-size statue to feature a ruler rather than a condotiere.

"), Berlin Gallery, the Canon Ludovico de ' Terzi and Moroni's self-portrait ; and in the National Gallery, Washington, the seated half-figure of the Jesuit Ercole Tasso, traditionally called " Titian's Schoolmaster ", although there is no real connection with Titian.

Titian's Venus with a Mirror, c. 1555, is an early example of Venus depicted at her toilet with Cupid.

Bonifazio de Pitati imparted upon his young pupil a lasting appreciation of Titian's work, the influence of which is clearly seen in his early pieces.

Unlike the National Gallery's ' Associate Artist Scheme ', however, Auerbach's work after historic artists was not the result of a short residency at the National Gallery, it has a long history, and in this exhibition he showed paintings made after Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne, from the 1970s to Rubens's Samson and Delilah made in 1993.

On 1 November 1950, Pius XII defined the dogma of the assumption ( Titian's Assunta ( 1516 – 18 ) pictured ).

Possibly the most famous rendition of the subject in Western art, Titian's Assunta ( 1516 – 18 ).

Bassano's earliest paintings exhibit his lifelong obsession with brilliant colors that he had seen in Titian's beginning works, particularly in Bassano's Supper at Emmaus ( 1538 ).

Diana and Callisto by Titian.

In Jupiter ( mythology ) | Jupiter and Callisto by François Boucher, Zeus takes the form of Artemis / Diana ( mythology ) | Diana ( Pushkin Museum, Moscow )

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

Upon this, Diana was enraged and expelled Callisto from the group, and subsequently she gave birth to Arcas.

* Richard Wilson's ' Landscape with Diana and Callisto ' at the Lady Lever Art Gallery

Most depictions of Diana in art featured the stories of Diana and Actaeon, or Callisto, or depicted her resting after hunting.

* Diana and Actaeon, Diana and Callisto, and Death of Actaeon by Titian.

* Diana and Callisto, Diana Resting After Bath, and Diana Getting Out of Bath by François Boucher.

* Diana and Callisto, Diana and Her Nymph Departing From Hunt, Diana and Her Nymphs Surprised By A Faun by Rubens.

* Landscape with Diana and Callisto painting

Foster cites Camilla and Diana, Artemis and Callisto, and Iphis and Ianthe as examples of female mythological figures who showed remarkable devotion to each other, or defied gender expectations.

* Diana and Callisto ( c. 1760 ) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

* Titian, Venus Anadyomene, Diana and Callisto, Diana and Actaeon, The Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint, and The Three Ages of Man

He was the leading member of the syndicate which purchased and partly resold the famous Orleans Collection of old master paintings in 1798 ( including Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto ), and most of his purchases are still held by the Egerton family.

Diana and Actaeon ( Titian ) | Diana and Actaeon, Titian, 1556 – 1559, a classic history painting, showing a dramatic moment in a mythological story, with elements of figure painting, landscape painting and still-life.

Sannazaro's Arcadia-coupled with the Portuguese author Jorge de Montemayor's Diana ( Los siete libros de la Diana, 1559 ), itself indebted to Sannazaro's work-had a profound impact on literature throughout Europe up until the middle of the seventeenth century.

The vogue for the pastoral romance spread throughout Europe producing such notable works as Bernardim Ribeiro " Menina e Moça " ( 1554 ) in Portuguese, Montemayor's Diana ( 1559 ) in Spain, Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia ( 1590 ) in England, and Honoré d ' Urfé's Astrée ( 1607 – 27 ) in France.

His reputation is based on a prose work, the Diana, a pastoral romance published about 1559.

The Bath of Diana, 1559 / 60.

She portrays Diana, a fan of The Beatles band member John Lennon ; she tries unsuccessfully to meet him.

In the film, she portrays the Diana Ross-based character Deena Jones.

The series portrays his career as a physician, naturalist and spy in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and the long pursuit of his beloved Diana Villiers.

The main character is Leonora, played by Diana Bracho, who portrays the victim of the " wolves ", only to " become " a " wolf " herself to seek revenge.

The film, which deals with the immediate aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, inaccurately portrays Janvrin, then Deputy Private Secretary to the Sovereign, as Private Secretary ( or at least heavily implies as much, though it is never explicitly said ), an office to which he would only be appointed two years after the events depicted in the film.