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- In 1516, Titian began work on his first major commission for a church called Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice. He painted Assumption of the Virgin (1516-1518) for the church's high altar, a masterwork that helped establish Titian as one of the leading painters in the area.
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Mar 1, 2021 · A discoloured painting which hung in a parish church for more than 100 years has been linked to the Renaissance master Titian. The Last Supper was gifted to St Michael and All Angels Church...
Assumption of the Virgin, oil painting on panel created in 1516–18 by Titian as the altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria dei Frari in Venice, Italy, where it remains. It is among the largest and most influential altarpieces in European art and is one of the artist’s most revolutionary masterpieces.
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Titian's talent in fresco is shown in those he painted in 1511 at Padua in the Carmelite church and in the Scuola del Santo, some of which have been preserved, among them the Meeting at the Golden Gate, and three scenes (Miracoli di sant'Antonio) from the life of St. Anthony of Padua, The Miracle of the Jealous Husband, which depicts the Murder ...
He painted Assumption of the Virgin (1516-1518) for the church's high altar, a masterwork that helped establish Titian as one of the leading painters in the area. He was known for his deft use of color and for his appealing renderings of the human form.
Titian was also commissioned to paint prestigious public religious paintings. His Venetian success was sealed by the execution of the altarpiece for the high altar of the important Franciscan church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice.
Sep 14, 2020 · Working on until the very end of his life, Titian left a Pietà painting unfinished which was likely intended for his own tomb in the Frari Church. Titian died on 27 August 1576 CE. The Pietà was completed by fellow Venetian artist Palma Giovane (1544-1628 CE) and is today in Venice's Academia Gallery.
Titian went on to paint other influential altarpieces, above all the Death of Saint Peter Martyr for the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo (1526–30, destroyed by fire in the nineteenth century), which Vasari thought the artist’s greatest work.
