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When did Titian paint Assumption of the Virgin?
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Venus of Urbino by Titian, 1538; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Titian painted the Assumption of the Virgin between 1516 and 1518.1
Commissioned as an altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria dei Frari in Venice, the work was unveiled in 1518. It remains one of the artist's most significant oil paintings and is recognized as a revolutionary masterpiece for its scale, use of color, and dramatic composition.1