Further reading
- Giorgio Vasari, 'Le Vite de’ piu eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori', 2nd edition, 1568, ed. Gaetano Milanesi, 9 vols, 1878–85, VII, p. 452
- L-F. Dubois de Saint Gelais, 'Description des Tableaux du Palais Royal', Paris 1727, pp. 465–6
- William Hazlitt, 'Sketches of the Picture-Galleries of England', London, 1824, pp. 63–6
- J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, 'The Life and Times of Titian', 2nd edition, 2 vols, London 1881, II, pp. 275–86
- Roger Fry, ‘The Bridgewater Titians I’, 'The Burlington Magazine', LXII, 1933, pp. 3–10
- S. Kennedy North, ‘The Bridgewater Titians II’, 'The Burlington Magazine', LXII, 1933, pp. 10–15
- E.K. Waterhouse, 'Titian’s Diana and Actaeon', Charlton Lectures on Art delivered at King’s College in the University of Durham, Oxford 1952
- S.J. Freedberg, 'Painting in Italy 1500–1600' (Pelican History of Art Series), Harmondsworth 1971, pp. 348–9
- Johannes Wilde, 'Venetian Art from Bellini to Titian', Oxford 1974, pp. 183–5
- Harold E. Wethey, 'The Paintings of Titian. III: The Mythological and Historical Paintings', London 1975, pp. 71–84, 138–41, no. 9
- Charles Hope, 'Titian', London 1980, pp. 128–34
- Jane C. Nash, 'Veiled Images: Titian’s Mythological Paintings for Philip II', Philadelphia 1985
- Augusto Gentili, 'Da Tiziano a Tiziano: Mito e allegoria nella cultura veneziana del Cinquecento', Rome 1988, pp. 183–204
- Hugh Brigstocke, 'Italian and Spanish Paintings in the National Gallery of Scotland', 2nd edition, Edinburgh 1993, pp. 178–83
- Terisio Pignatti, ‘Abbozzi and Ricordi: New Observations on Titian’s Technique’, Titian 500 (Studies in the History of Art 45), ed. Joseph Manca, Washington 1993, pp. 73–83
- Fernando Checa, 'Tiziano y la monarquia hispanica', Madrid 1994, pp. 103–4
- Peter Humfrey, 'Painting in Renaissance Venice', New Haven and London 1995, pp. 205–11, pls 152–4
- Rona Goffen, 'Titian’s Women', New Haven and London 1997, pp. 253–63
- Matteo Mancini, 'Tiziano e le corti d’Asburgo nei documenti degli archivi spagnoli', Venice 1998, pp. 64–6, 246–70
- Filippo Pedrocco and M.A. Chiari Moretto Wiel, 'Titian: The Complete Paintings', London 2001, no. 205
- Alessandra Anselmi, 'Il diario del viaggio in Spagna del Cardinale Francesco Barberini scritto da Cassiano dal Pozzo', Madrid 2004, pp. 227–33
- Peter Humfrey, 'Titian', London 2007, pp. 182–6
- Peter Humfrey, 'Titian: The Complete Paintings', Ghent 2007, nos 220–1