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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.
- An Allegory of Prudence
- Bacchus and Ariadne
- Noli me Tangere
- La Schiavona Portrait of a Lady ('La Schiavona')
- Portrait of a Young Man
- Portrait of Gerolamo (?) Barbarigo
- Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro
- The Aldobrandini Madonna
- The Holy Family with a Shepherd
- The Tribute Money
- The Vendramin Family
- The Virgin suckling the Infant Christ
- A Boy with a Bird
- The Music Lesson
- The Trinity ('La Gloria')
Tiziano Vecellio (Italian: [titˈtsjaːno veˈtʃɛlljo]; c. 1488/90 [1] – 27 August 1576), [2] Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian (/ ˈ t ɪ ʃ ən / ⓘ TISH-ən), was an Italian Renaissance painter, [a] the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting.
Jan 5, 2020 · Born into the Late Renaissance, Titian's artwork was produced within a different painting philosophy to his predecessors. At the time, there were two leading schools of thought in painting: the Florentine and the Venetian.
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).
Sep 14, 2020 · In a long career working for dukes, kings, and popes, Titian produced a large number of paintings, mostly with a religious theme, a mythological theme or portraits. The artist's work is renowned for the emotion of his figures, rich colouring, and overall mood of the compositions.
One of the most famous paintings in the National Gallery, Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne illustrates a story told by the classical authors Ovid and Catullus. The Cretan princess Ariadne has been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship sails away in the distance.
