Focus on Portrait of Pope Paul III with camauro and explore the Provenance.
The work now in Naples was then owned by Fulvio Orsini, collector and librarian to the Farnese family, then to Odoardo Farnese, who added it to the other portraits of his family by Titian at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. In the 17th century it and all the other works in the Farnese collection in Rome were moved to Parma, where it hung in a room alongside the same artist's Portrait of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and Portrait of Pier Luigi Farnese before being moved to the Palazzo della Pilotta in the same city. When Charles of Bourbon succeeded to the throne on the death of his mother Elisabeth Farnese, this work and the rest of the collection were moved to Naples around 1734. It was initially displayed at Capodimonte, then in the Palazzo Reale, then in the Palazzo degli Studi and finally returned to Capodimonte. This work and the Portrait of Pier Luigi Farnese were both demoted to studio-work status due to their poor condition, but a major mid 20th century restoration and investigation of the Portrait of Pope Paul III placed its colours on new supports and reconfirmed the work's autograph status.
Elisabeth Farnese Fulvio Orsini Naples librarian Paul III Portrait of Pope Paul III Charles of Bourbon Farnese family Titian Portrait of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese Palazzo Reale Portrait of Pier Luigi Farnese Odoardo Farnese Palazzo Farnese Parma Palazzo degli Studi