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"tombstone": "The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea, 1514\u201315, printed 1549. Titian (Italian, c. 1488\u20131576), published by Domenico dalle Greche (Italian, 1503\u20131603). Woodcut; unframed: 40 x 55 cm (15 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1952.296",
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"title": "The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea",
"creation_date": "1514\u201315, printed 1549",
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"measurements": "Unframed: 40 x 55 cm (15 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.)",
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{
"id": 300859,
"title": "The Venetian Tradition",
"description": "The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).",
"opening_date": "1956-11-08T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 304546,
"title": "Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions",
"description": "Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).",
"opening_date": "1980-10-21T04:00:00"
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{
"id": 309855,
"title": "I and Thou",
"description": "I and Thou. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 21-May 27, 1984).",
"opening_date": "1984-02-21T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 184690,
"title": "Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection",
"description": "Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).",
"opening_date": "2003-08-17T00:00:00"
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{
"id": 437915,
"title": "Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit",
"description": "Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-October 29, 2023).",
"opening_date": "2023-07-02T04:00:00"
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"did_you_know": "Titian may have identified the Egyptians in this composition, drowned in the Red Sea as they pursue the fleeing Israelites, with the League of Cambrai, a military alliance formed by the major powers in southern Europe and a menace to his hometown of Venice.",
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"description": "This composition is made up of 12 separately printed woodcuts to create one image in grand scale. The size rivals that of a history painting, and, unlike most prints, the composition would have been hung on the wall. This is confirmed by the lack of complete impressions from the date of the print's creation\u2014around 1515. This and all extant impressions date from a later edition, published in 1549 by the publisher Domenico dalle Greche (Italian, active 1543\u20131558). The woodcut is based on a drawing by the Venetian master Titian, and the bold, expressive, and irregular marks of the woodcutter imitate his drawing manner. The narrative\u2014that of the Israelites\u2019 persecution under the Egyptian pharaoh and his army\u2019s fate when they followed Moses into the Red Sea\u2014is propelled across the 12 sheets with remarkable unity. The rolling clouds and turbulent sea culminate in the solid gravity of the magnificent cliff that overhangs the shore.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry Sayles. Venetian Tradition: Catalogue of the Exhibition. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 40, no. 71; Reproduced: Cover",
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"citation": "Richards, Louise S. \u201cThe Titian Woodcut by Domenico Dalle Greche.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 43, no. 9 (November 1956): 197\u2013203.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 197; Reproduced: p. 198-199",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142160"
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"citation": "Shestack, Alan, review of \"Titian and the Venetian Woodcut,\" The Print Collector's Newsletter Vol. 7, No. 6 (January-February 1977): pp. 169-171",
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"url": ""
},
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"citation": "Field, Richard. \"Another Country: Ambiguities Present and Past.\" IN Another Country. Christiane Baumgartner, Lisa Fischman, Claire C. Whitner, and Richard S. Field, 41-54. Munich, Germany: Hirmer ; Wellesley, Massachusetts: Davis Museum, 2018.",
"page_number": "Reproduced p. 42; mentioned: p. 43",
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"biography": "Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian, was the greatest Italian painter of 16th-century Venice, known for his expressive brushwork, brilliant color, and hazy atmospheric effects. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, a small town on the Venetian side of the Alps around 1490. He moved to Venice when he was ten years old, and started his artistic training under the mosaicist Sebastiano Zuccato. He later joined Gentile's and Giovanni's Bellini workshops, and started a collaboration with the painter Giorgione on the frescoes of the Fondaco dei tedeschi in 1508. Titian's \"Assumption of the Virgin\" (1516-1518) for the church's high altar became the masterwork that helped establish him as one of the leading painters in the Venetian area. Over his career, Titian created paintings for prestigious commissioners, such as Pope Paul III, king Philip II of Spain, and Charles V. In his later years, Titian mainly focused on religious and mythological subjects. he died of plague on August 27, 1576 in Venice. Titian's artistic oeuvre had a great impact on later generations of painters, such as Rembrandt, Diego Vel\u00e0zquez, Anton van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens.",
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"updated_at": "2026-07-25 11:42:18.808000"
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