Five renaissance masterpieces unveiled in Shanghai

Flora by Titian was among five Renaissance masterpieces that were unveiled in front of the media at Bund One Art Museum in Shanghai on Mar 22, a week before the opening of the exhibition Titian's Flora: Venetian Painting from the Uffizi Galleries.

The exhibition going on from Mar 29 to July 28 will feature 49 paintings, including eight original Titian creations, from the collection of Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy. Some of the artworks, such as Titian's Flora, will be making their first public showcase in the Chinese mainland at the exhibition. Some are on tour away from the Uffizi Galleries for the first time, according to Xie Dingwei, founding director of Bund One Art Museum.

This is the third exhibition created under the agreement signed in 2021 between Tix-Media and the Uffizi Galleries. According to the agreement, the two parties will host 10 exhibitions at the Bund One Art Museum within five years.

The other four paintings unveiled on Friday were Venus and Cupid with a Dog and a Partridge by Titian, Giorgione's Moses Undergoing Trial by Fire, Tintoretto's Venus, Cupid and Vulcan and Veronese's Baptism of Christ.

According to the curator of the exhibition Anna Bisceglia, Titian as a representative artist of the Renaissance period, is one of the most important artists in the Uffizi Galleries. While the Titian paintings represent different decades of his long life, she also managed to showcase all the artists that gathered around Titian, from Tintoretto and Veronese to some less renowned artists, to show that the impact of Titian was so strong that many artists in Venice region and other parts of Italy were able to learn from his lesson.