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Mar 16, 2020 · Location: Level 2. Titian’s sensuous interpretation of Classical myths of love, temptation, and punishment. In 1551, Prince Philip of Spain, the future King Philip II, commissioned Titian, the most famous painter in Europe, to produce a group of paintings showing Classical myths primarily taken from the Roman poet Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’.
- Titian’s ‘Poesie’: The Commission
The ageing Titian met the 21-year-old Prince Philip through...
- Titian: Europe's Most Wanted
Titian had one of the longest careers of any artist; he was...
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- Remarkable Titian Loan
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- Titian's Technique
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- Framing Titian
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- Modern Discoveries About Titian's Poesie
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- Mary Beard on Titian and Ovid
Titian not only took inspiration from the stories’ text but...
- Follower of Titian
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) was born in Pieve di Cadore, a...
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Explore the life and work of Titian; the greatest painter of...
- Titian’s ‘Poesie’: The Commission
- Youth and Debut
- Early Local Success
- North Italian Courts
- Worldwide Success, Family and Friends
- Late Years
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) was born in Pieve di Cadore, a small town at the foot of the Dolomites on the Venetian side of the Alps. The Vecellios had been based in Cadore since the 14th century. Titian’s father, Gregorio, was a military man. His older brother Francesco was also a painter. There is still no documentary evidence of Titian’s exact date...
In 1511 Titian painted his celebrated frescoes in the ‘Scuola del Santo’ in Padua. His style had now reached maturity, marked by fullness of forms, compositional confidence and chromatic balance. These features made his work fundamental to the development of Venetian – and also European – painting. He became famous as a portraitist (examples in the...
Early in 1516 Titian started his professional relationship with Alfonso I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara and spent time in Alfonso’s castle. The duke wanted to create a private cabinet, which would be known as the ‘camerino d’alabastro’ (the alabaster cabinet), with mythological scenes derived from classical poetry. The duke employed the painters he consi...
The 1520s were hugely significant for Titian’s private life. In 1525 he married Cecilia (who tragically died in 1530). Titian and Cecilia had three children, who were all given the names of famous figures from ancient Rome: Pompeo, Orazio and Lavinia. Titian’s meeting with the Holy Roman Emperor Charles Vin Bologna in 1530 would be a determining ev...
The last phase of Titian’s life coincided with a radical revision of his own style and painting technique. Starting from the late 1550s, Titian developed a much freer use of the brush and a less descriptive representation of reality. In the late 1560s and early 1570s, when Titian was already extremely old, he pushed his art to the edge of abstracti...
The ageing Titian met the 21-year-old Prince Philip through Philip's father Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain who was already Titian's patron. The concept of a thematic group, or cycle, of large paintings, was probably conceived when Titian and Philip met for the first time in Milan in 1548, and subsequently at the Imperial Diet ...
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Titian had one of the longest careers of any artist; he was still painting well into his 70s. He was born and spent his early years in Pieve di Cadore, a town in the foothills of the Dolomites, north of Venice. He moved to Venice itself in around 1500, aged about 10. He never lost touch with Pieve and often spent his summers there; the region ...
Mar 24, 2020 · That painting is in a revelatory one-room show called “Titian: Love Desire Death,” organized by Matthias Wivel for the National Gallery in London, where it is scheduled to run through June 14 ...
Explore the life and work of Titian; the greatest painter of 16th century Venice ... updates on exhibitions, plus occasional offers and information on how to support ...
