biography
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Titian
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Ital Tiziano Vecellio
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pronunciation:
[tishan]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1490–1576)
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| biography:
| Venetian painter, born in Pieve di Cadore, NE Italy. Trained in the studio of Giovanni Bellini, he assisted Giorgione with the paintings on the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (1508). His early paintings display Giorgione's influence, and his own revolutionary style is not apparent until after c.1516, in such works as ‘The Assumption of the Virgin’ (1516–18, Venice). For the Duke of Ferrara he painted three great mythological subjects, ‘The Feast of Venus’ (c.1515–18), ‘The Bacchanal’ (c.1518, both Prado, Madrid), and the richly-coloured ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ (c.1523, National Gallery, London). From 1530, he also painted many pictures for Emperor Charles V, and this period includes his ‘Ecce Homo’ (1543, Vienna). He later executed a series of works on mythological scenes for Philip of Spain, and in his last years painted several religious and mythological subjects, such as ‘The Fall of Man’ (c.1570, Madrid) and ‘Christ Crowned with Thorns’ (c.1570, Munich). He is widely acclaimed as the greatest of the Venetian painters. |
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