1570-72

Updated: May 19, 2025

This assumption, if accepted, would fix the time of origin of the picture at about 1565, and, reasoning from analogies of technique, this appears to be a more acceptable date than the year 1570-72, at which Morelli would place it. One of the most important chapters in our master's life closed with the death of Aretino, which took place suddenly on the 21st of October 1556.

Claude Phillips - The Later Works of Titian