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What new composition did Titian create in the Pesaro Madonna?
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Venus of Urbino by Titian, 1538; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
In the Pesaro Madonna (1519–26), Titian created a new type of composition in which the Madonna and saints, along with the male members of the Pesaro family, are positioned within a monumental columnar portico of a church.1
This innovative arrangement, which features the figures bathed in sunlight and shadows, established a formula that was widely adopted by later Venetian Renaissance painters and served as an inspiration for Baroque masters such as Anthony van Dyck and Rubens.1