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Monument to Titian
Monument to Titian is a funerary monument erected in honor of Venetian Renaissance painter Titian, located inside the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, in Venice, Italy. It was designed by Italian neo-classical sculptor Luigi Zandomeneghi (b. 1778-d. 1850), and completed in 1852 by his sons Pietro and Andrea after his death. The work was commissioned by Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria in 1838 during the second Austrian occupation of Venice (1815-1866). The monument is considered neo-classical in style, and includes Latin inscriptions commemorating Titian's relationship to the Habsburg dynasty during the Sixteenth Century and celebrating the commission of the work in nineteenth-century Habsburg Venice. Also, the work includes bas-relief copies of some of Titian's major works in Venice, including the Assumption of the Virgin, which is also inside the Church of the Frari.