Christ on a triumphal chariot with saints, martyrs, sibyls and other figures; representing the triumph of faith (?). Engraving by S. Pomarede after G.A. Buti after Bonifacio de' Pitati.

The subject was identified by the compiler of an inventory in 1570 as the triumph of divinity by Petrarch. The relevant triumph by Petrarch is the triumph of eternity, but apart from the small scene of the ascent into heaven in the left background, the present composition does not seem to relate closely to Petrarch's poem. Jamineau ( loc. cit., if he is the author) calls it on the titlepage the triumph of religion, while on p. vii "The triumph of Cristianity"

In the upper left, God receives into heaven Adam and Eve, Moses and Aaron, and two saints

1770

1 print : line engraving

Em.o et r.mo prinicipi Hieronymo S.R.E. diacono cardinali Columnae ... Ioannes Michilli celeberrimi Titiani opus egregium, Triumphum divinitatis a Francisco Petrarcha versibus exaratum repraesentans ... in perenne obsequii devinctique animi monimentum d.d.d. Tabula originalis a Titiano dipicta juris est (currente anno aere Christ. 1770) Isaaci Jamineau armigeri angli. Titianus pinxit. Io. Ant. Buti del. Sylv. Pomarede sculp.

[State with lettering recording Isaac Jamineau's ownership of the painting in 1770].

Wellcome Collection 10696i

[Isaac Jamineau?], Description of four capital pictures by Titian after the cantos of Petrarch stiled the Triumphs of time, of fame, of religion, & of death, [London? 1774?]

P. Cottrell, 'Painting poetry: Bonifacio de' Pitati's "Triumphs of Petrarch"', Artibus et historiae, 2013, 68: 121-141

Georgios E. Markou, 'Bonifacio de' Pitati's "Triumphs of Petrarch" and their Cypriot patron', The Burlington magazine, 2017, 159: 600-609

Generally attributed to Titian up to ca. 1831

After a painting commissioned by the Synglitico family in Venice ca. 1545. By 1748 it was in the collection in Rome of Giovanni Michilli, collector of tobacco taxes for the Vatican, and later in the possession of Isaac Jamineau, British consul in Naples 1753-1779. It subsequently passed to the Klassik Stiftung, Weimar

One of four engravings by Pomarede after four of six paintings described in 1570 as "quadri sei grandi con li sei triomphi del Petracha cioe della morte, del tempo, d'amore, la fama, la castita, la divinita" (Markou, op. cit., p. 602)