Titian - The Vendramin Family Venerating a Relic of the True Cross 1540-1545
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The Vendramin Family Venerating a Relic of the True Cross 1540-1545
206x289cm oil on canvas
National Gallery London, United Kingdom
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From National Gallery London:
The specific identity of the sitters in this, Titian’s largest group portrait, is disputed, but the man in the centre is most likely Andrea Vendramin (1481–1547), while the one on his right is his brother Gabriel Vendramin (1484–1552), a significant collector of works of art. The boys are the former’s seven sons. The reliquary of the True Cross on the altar still exists in the Scuola di S. Giovanni Evangelista in Venice. It was presented to an earlier Andrea Vendramin, Guardian of the Scuola, on behalf of this confraternity in 1369. On one occasion he is said to have rescued it from a canal.