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This essay presents the first critical overview of the collection and display of art objects acquired by the Venetian nobleman Andrea di Nicolò Loredan (1450–1513). It focuses on the decoration of three key sites maintained by the Loredan clan: the governor's palace in Brescia, the location and contents of which are here identified for the first time; the Loredan palace on the Grand Canal in Venice; and the Loredan funerary chapel in the church of San Michele in Isola in the Venetian lagoon. Examination of Titian's grandiose easel painting the 'Flight into Egypt' (c.1507), recently discovered to have played a crucial role within the Loredan palace, helps to elucidate the range of material and devotional agendas of the art possessed by Andrea. Critical reconstruction of the Loredan collection is achieved through fresh attention to archival records, and a little-known panegyric (1504) by the Brescian friar Martino Codagnello. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the 1648 painting "Landscape with a man killed by a snake," by French painter Nicolas Poussin. Topics discussed include the way he depicted the reactions of a young man and an old woman to a python attack in the painting, the possible connection of this artwork to Poussin's 1650 painting "Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice," and the link between the painting and the 1647 opera "L'Orfeo," by Francesco Buti and Luigi Rossi.

The article deals with documents which upon re-examination suggest that the painting "Flight into Egypt" by the young Titian c.1507 was commissioned by Italian art collector Andrea di Nicolò Loredan. Topics discussed include how the documents elucidate the legal channels through which patrons regulated the mobility of works of art in early modern Venice and the uncertainties that persist over the patron of the painting.