The Titian Room is part of the suite of rooms situated along the Hermitage courtyard and decorated by Andrei Stakenschneider in the 1850s. The small living-rooms were intended for honoured guests of the Imperial court. The 19th-century decorhas notsurvived. The room is used for a display of canvases by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, 1488-1576), the great Venetian artist of the Renaissance, most of them belonging to the latest period of his creative career. Among them are such masterpieces as Danae (mid-16th century), Repentant Mary Magdalene (1560s) and St.Sebastian" (1570s).