Travels with Titian
An art historian and her students create an interactive guide to the work of the master painter
In 1798, as Napoleon approached the city of Naples, Titian’s masterpiece Danae with Cupid was hurried for safekeeping through a secret passageway to a British ship captained by Lord Horatio Nelson, who took it to Palermo. It was secreted to an abbey 145 years later to hide it from approaching Nazis. Now safely back in Naples, Danae with Cupid is one of 300 paintings whose stories are told on the interactive website Mapping Titian.
