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Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio, known in English as Titian, was a Venetian painter during the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, 'from Cadore', taken from his native region.
Titian Italian. ca. 1565–70. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 608. Venus, the goddess of love, interrupts her music making to be crowned with a wreath of flowers by Cupid. An admiring, well-dressed youth playing the lute—the quintessential instrument for love madrigals—gazes at her raptly. In the background nymphs and satyrs ...
Perhaps Titian ’s letter was meant simply to flatter, but his words—and this painting—point to the powerful role played by Renaissance patrons. To modern sensibilities it seems unthinkable that anyone would order significant parts of a work by Giovanni Bellini —father of the Venetian Renaissance—painted over, but that is just what Alfonso d’Este did.
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. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 ...
Titian is known above all for his remarkable use of color; his painterly approach was highly influential well into the seventeenth century. Titian contributed to all of the major areas of Renaissance art, painting altarpieces, portraits, mythologies, and pastoral landscapes with figures. Early Works
Aug 12, 2021 · Titian: Women, Myth & Power. Through Jan. 2 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, (617) 566-1401, gardnermuseum.org. Holland Cotter is the co-chief art critic. He writes on a wide range ...
Titian, Isabella d’Este (Isabella in Black) (detail), c. 1536, oil on canvas, 102.4 cm x 64.7 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum) This image is a lie, or at the very least, a half-truth. Painted by the Venetian artist Titian around 1536, the work is a portrait of Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua and wife of the ruler Francesco I Gonzaga.
