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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...
More paintings by Titian. (Showing 6 of 20 works) View all. Titian, Diana and Actaeon, 1556-9. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
Aug 21, 2018 · The powerful 'La Schiavona' is framed by strong horizontal and vertical framing of the ledge, and the light cleverly highlights the delicate veil and the flush of the woman’s cheeks, breathing life into the figure. Giacomo Doria. Giacomo Doria 1530–1535. Titian (c.1488–1576) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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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’.
