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Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (pronounced [titˈtsjaːno veˈtʃɛlljo]; c. 1488/90 – 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian (/ ˈ t ɪ ʃ ən / ⓘ TISH-ən), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting.
This incomplete list of works by Titian contains representative portraits and mythological and religious works from a large oeuvre that spanned 70 years. (Titian left relatively few drawings.) Painting titles and dates often vary by source.
Feb 8, 2021 · Titian was an Italian painter who was born around 1490 in Pieve di Cadore, Italy and died on 27 August 1576 in Venice, Italy. Titan was often called da Cadore, this name was taken from the place of his birth. This article contains 20 Most Famous Paintings by Titian.
Jun 25, 2024 · Titian, the greatest Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. He was recognized early in his own lifetime as a supremely talented painter, and his reputation has in the intervening centuries never suffered a decline. A few of his best-known works include Venus of Urbino and Assumption.
Titian contributed to all of the major areas of Renaissance art, painting altarpieces, portraits, mythologies, and pastoral landscapes with figures. Titian trained under two other seminal Venetian artists, Giovanni Bellini (active by 1459, died 1516) and Giorgione (1477/78–1510).
Titian was the greatest painter of 16th-century Venice, and the first painter to have a mainly international clientele. During his long career, he experimented with many different styles of painting which embody the development of art during his epoch.
5 Iconic Paintings by Titian. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Munsey Fund, 1936, (36.29), www.metmuseum.org. Titian was recognized as a great painter during his lifetime, and he has retained that standing to this day. Here are five of his masterpieces.
Titian is known not only for his religious paintings but also as an incisive portraitist and poetic interpreter of mythological subjects. In addition to church and private Venetian patrons, he was engaged to work for the Gonzaga court at Ferrara, for Pope Paul III, and for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
Titian's first surviving works that can be precisely dated are three frescos on the life of St Antony of Padua in the Scuola del Santo, Padua (1511), noble and dignified paintings with an almost central Italian firmness and monumentality.
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) Pieve di Cadore, Belluno, Veneto (Italy), ca. 1490 - Venice (Italy), 1576. Born to an important family from Cadore, Titan arrived in Venice around 1500-1502. There, after first working in Giovanni Bellini’s workshop, he entered that of his older brother Gentile Bellini.
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