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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 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.
Tiziano Vecellio (Italian: [titˈtsjaːno veˈtʃɛlljo]; c. 1488/90[1] – 27 August 1576), [2] Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian (/ ˈtɪʃən / ⓘ TISH-ən), was an Italian Renaissance painter, [a] the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. [4]
Explore the life and work of Titian; the greatest painter of 16th century Venice Artist's biography Read about Titian's life and work from his arrival in Venice as a young boy to achieving international success
The feeble pope, then aged 78, appears to turn suddenly in his chair toward Ottavio Farnese, his 22-year-old grandson. Ottavio’s overly obsequious bow and his shrewd Machiavellian profile demonstrate Titian’s sheer genius in understanding and recording character.
Charles attempted to induce Titian to go to Spain in 1534 to prepare a portrait of the empress, but the artist wisely refrained from undertaking the arduous journey. Titian’s other portraits in the 1520s and 1530s provide a gallery of the leading aristocrats of Italy.
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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).
