Diana and Callisto - Titian

Price in US $ - 70.6 million

Diana and Callisto is a painting completed between 1556 and 1559 by the Venetian artist Titian. It portrays the moment in which the goddess Diana discovers that her maid Callisto has become pregnant by Jupiter. Titian himself referred to his this group of paintings as ‘poesie’, the visual equivalent of poetry.

Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marquis of Vasto, in Armor with a Page - Titian

Price in US $ - 70 million

Titian's Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos (Governor of Milan and commander general of imperial forces in Italy under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V), painted in Bologna in the winter of 1533, signals the inception of one of the most influential prototypes in the history of Western art-the standing state portrait. Titian, along with Raphael, set the standard for court portraiture during the subsequent development of Western painting. This portrait heralds such remarkable later paintings as Anthony van Dyck's Portrait of Agostino Pallavicini, Domenico Fetti's Portrait of a Man with a Sheet of Music, and Guercino's Pope Gregory XV.

Diana and Actaeon - Titian

Price in US $ - 70.6 million





















The story of how Actaeon was turned into a stag for glimpsing the naked goddess Diana has inspired artists through the centuries. Diana and Actaeon is considered to be one of the greatest works by the Italian Renaissance master Titian.

Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects.

The Massacre of the Innocents - Rubens

Price in US $ - 76,000,000



This painting by Peter Paul Rubens, a seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, depicts an episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents as related in the Gospel of Matthew. Rubens draws on the great Italian Renaissance painters including Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese to depict one of the most brutal Biblical scenes: when king Herod ordered all new-born boys to be killed to prevent one of them becoming the Messiah.


The Massacre of the Innocents holds the current record for an Old Master painting.

Venus and Adonis - Titian

Price in US $ - 13,500,500


Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, relates the story of the goddess Venus vainly trying to restrain her lover, the mortal Adonis, from departing for the hunt. The mood of playful sensuality conceals the tragic irony that Adonis is destined to be killed during the hunt by a wild boar.Titian's loose, energetic strokes of paint give the painting a sense of spontaneity and movement. Titian used rich colors, shimmering highlights, and a lush landscape to create the painting's evocative, poignant mood.