Antonio Vecchio Tiziano, Venise...

 

Edgar Chahine

  1874 - 1947 (biography)

1923  

etching, printed chine collé 

8 5/8 x 6 3/16" platemark 

pencil, lower left 

6 of 100  

titled and editioned in pencil 

Tabanelli 363 

thin white china paper collaged to a thick, antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

15695 

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A striking portrait of a man named Antonio dressed in 16th century garb (Old Titian) in Venice in 1923. In the background is a statue of St. Theodore on a pedestal, having vanquished a dragon. Theodore was the original Patron Saint of Venice before St. Mark's relics arrived in Rome. The sculpture, on one of a pair of monolithic pedestals) is located on the Piazza San Marco (Saint Mark's Square) near the Doge's Palace.