Titian - Portrait of Pope Paul III, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and Duke Ottavio Farnese 1546
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Portrait of Pope Paul III, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and Duke Ottavio Farnese 1546
210x176cm oil on canvas
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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Pope Paul III and His Grandsons (Italian: Paolo III e i nipoti Alessandro e Ottavio Farnese) is a painting in oil on canvas by Titian, housed in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. It was commissioned by the Farnese family and painted during Titian's visit to Rome between autumn 1545 and June 1546. It depicts the thorny relationship between Pope Paul III, born Alessandro Farnese, and two of his grandsons, Ottavio and Alessandro. Ottavio is shown in the act of kneeling, to his left; Alessandro, wearing a cardinal's dress, stands behind him to his right. The painting explores the effects of ageing and the manoeuvring behind succession; Paul was at the time in his late seventies and operating within an uncertain political climate as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, came into ascendancy.