Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos (1553-55)
National Gallery of Art Washington
Titian has painted Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos on a canvas with a pattern
weave draft of the pattern of the canvas of Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos. Handwoven reconstruction in progress.
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It looks as if the canvas of Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos and Venus and Adonis have the same pattern but analyses show that there is a difference in the warp repeat, one has 14 threads, seen in the red lines below, the other one has 12, seen in the blue lines below. This signifies that the looms dressed differently for both textiles.
Venus and Adonis (left) and Saint John on Patmos (right) courtesy of NGA
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Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis NG34 (1540), a painting in The National Gallery in London, atributed to Titian workshop
National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 36
…analyses of this image of the painting revealed that the pattern is woven on an M W threading and is therefore not an “unusual chevron twill weave or a wide herringbone but with little zigzag at the end of the ‘spine’ as published in the National Gallery Technical Bulletin Volume 36…
weave draft of the pattern of the canvas of Venus and Adonis.
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