Presentation of the Virgin (Presentation of Mary in the Temple), c.1534/38 Tiziano Vecellio Titian (c.1485-1576)

We create our paintings with museum quality and covering the highest academic standards. Once we get your order, it will be entirely hand-painted with oil on canvas. All the materials we use are the highest level, being totally artist graded painting materials and linen canvas.

We will add 1.6" (4 cm) additional blank canvas all over the painting for stretching.

High quality and detailing in every inch are time consuming. The reproduction of Tiziano Vecellio Titian also needs time to dry in order to be completely ready for shipping, as this is crucial to not be damaged during transportation.
Based on the size, level of detail and complexity we need 8-9 weeks to complete the process.

In case the delivery date needs to be extended in time, or we are overloaded with requests, there will be an email sent to you sharing the new timelines of production and delivery.

TOPofART wants to remind you to keep patient, in order to get you the highest quality, being our mission to fulfill your expectations.

We not stretch and frame our oil paintings due to several reasons:
Painting reproduction is a high quality expensive product, which we cannot risk to damage by sending it being stretched.
Also, there are postal restrictions, regarding the size of the shipment.
Additionally, due to the dimensions of the stretched canvas, the shipment price may exceed the price of the product itself.

You can stretch and frame your painting in your local frame-shop.

Once the painting Presentation of the Virgin (Presentation of Mary in the Temple) is ready and dry, it will be shipped to your delivery address. The canvas will be rolled-up in a secure postal tube.

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The paintings we create are only of museum quality. Our academy graduated artists will never allow a compromise in the quality and detail of the ordered painting. TOPofART do not work, and will never allow ourselves to work with low quality studios from the Far East. We are based in Europe, and quality is our highest priority.

This huge canvas was painted for a hall of the Squola della Carita (a Venetian religious association). The depicted event proceeds before the viewer "film-like" parallel to the picture plane. On the left, three huge glossy columns close the scene and from them begins the animated group of Venetian citizens, painted with portrait verisimilitude, who follow the action with their eyes. The movements of the two richly dressed women of high society lead the gaze to the staircase which is the centre of the picture, and up which a frail, precocious girl, Maria, steps. It is not only her bright clothing and the unearthly light emanating from it, but also the broken rhythm of the staircase and the rising columns behind it that highlight the girl's figure. The direction of movement continues in a straight line to the high priest dressed in oriental robes. This picture is solemnly representational, the sacred event taking place amid marble palaces in the presence of Venetian citizens, but the figure of the old woman selling eggs is a reminder that life is not always so solemn and festive.