The Portrait of Pietro Aretino is an oil on canvas portrait of the Renaissance poet Pietro Aretino by Titian, painted around 1545, possibly for Cosimo I de' Medici. It is now in the Sala di Venere of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.Wethey, Harold, The Paintings of Titian. II, London, Phaidon, 1971, pp. 116–117. Titian painted two other portraits of Aretino: a 1527 portrait in the Kunstmuseum BaselKunstmuseum BaselIrene Brooke writes that the portrait in the Kunstmuseum Basel is a copy of a lost portrait of 1527. Brooke, Irene, Review of Waddington, Raymond, Titian's Aretino: A Contextual Study of All the Portraits, in The Burlington Magazine, 161 (August 2019), pp. 702-703. and a 1537 portrait in the Frick Collection.Frick CollectionSalomon, Xavier F. "The Painter and the Libertine: Titian and Pietro Aretino". The Frick Collection, February 15, 2017. Salomon, Xavier F. Cocktails with a Curator: Titian's "Aretino". The Frick Collection.
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