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Venus and Adonis

Titian, 1550s

Venus and Adonis by Titian
Venus and Adonis by Titian, 1.33 m × 1.07 m
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

1.33 m × 1.07 m

Almost as tall as you are. It comes to about the height of the person standing beside it.

Against things you know the size of

This work 1.07 m Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
1.07 m
Width
1.33 m
Medium
Oil on canvas
Kind
Paintings
Where the measurement comes from
Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it
42 x 52 1/2 in. (106.7 x 133.4 cm)
Credit
The Jules Bache Collection, 1949

Ask this work

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?
1.33 m × 1.07 m. Almost as tall as you are. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1550s. It is in the public domain, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?
Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949.
How was it made?
Oil on canvas.
Who speaks for it?
Its record at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

Stand next to it in the gallery Record at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Four works a week, shown at their real size

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Hangs well beside

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.