Titian Art

Titian Art

Tiziano Vecellio (1488, Pieve di Cadore - 1576, Venice), known as Titian, the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian High/Late Renaissance, and the greatest Venetian artist of the 16th century, the shaper of the Venetian coloristic and painterly tradition. Titian contributed to all of the major areas of Renaissance art, painting altarpieces, portraits, mythologies, and pastoral landscapes with figures. He is one of the key figures in the history of Western art.

His work, which permanently affected the course of European painting, provided an alternative, of equal power and attractiveness, to the linear and sculptural Florentine tradition championed by Michelangelo and Raphael; this alternative, eagerly taken up by Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velazquez, Rembrandt van Rijn, Eugene Delacroix, and the Impressionists, is still vital today. In its own right Titian's work often attains the very highest reach of human achievement in the visual arts.

Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally good with portraits and landscapes (two genres that first brought him fame), mythological and religious subjects. He changed his manner so drastically that some critics refuse to believe that his early and later pieces could have been produced by the same man. What unites two parts of his career is his deep interest in colour. Although his later works may not sing with vivid, luminous tints as his early pieces do, yet their loose brushwork and subtlety of polychromatic modulations have no precedents in the history of Western art.

During the last 25 years of his life (1550 - 1576) the artist, more and more absorbed in his work as a portrait-painter and also more self-critical, an insatiable perfectionist, finished only a few great works. Some of his pictures he kept in his studio for 10 years, never wearying of returning to them and retouching them, constantly adding new expressions at once more refined, concise, and subtle.

Titian's paintings are dynamic and vibrant. These paintings, both secular and religious, create a Venetian counterpart to High Renaissance style: equally complex, monumental, and dynamic, but one which made full use of the traditional Venetian resources of color, free brushwork, and atmospheric tone. Most of Titian's work is deep and emotionally charged, marking the transition of High Renaissance period into the emerging Baroque era.

Titian's influence on later artists has been profound: he was supreme in every branch of painting and revolutionized the oil technique with his free and expressive brushwork. Titian's students included El Greco and Tintoretto. Titian was approaching 90-years-old when the plague raging in Venice seized him, and he died on 27 August 1576. He was the only victim of that plague to be given a church burial and was interred in the Frari (Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice).

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Contents

  1. Pope Alexander IV Presenting Jacopo Pesaro to St. Peter, 1509
  2. Gipsy Madonna, 1510
  3. Portrait of Ariosto, 1510
  4. Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman, 1510
  5. Portrait of a Woman called 'La Schiavona', 1510
  6. The Concert, 1510
  7. The Concert (Detail 1), 1510
  8. The Concert (Detail 2), 1510
  9. Titian's Paduan Frescoe, 1511
  10. Noli Me Tangere (Don't Touch Me), 1512
  11. The Concert, 1512
  12. The Three Ages of Man, 1512
  13. Sacred and Profane Love, 1514
  14. Sacred and Profane Love (Detail 2), 1514
  15. Sacred and Profane Love (Detail), 1514
  16. Baptism of Christ, 1515
  17. Flora, 1515
  18. Madonna of the Cherries, 1515
  19. Portrait of a Man, 1515
  20. Portrait of a Young Man, 1515
  21. Profane Love or Vanity, 1515
  22. Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, 1515
  23. Suicide of Lucretia, 1515
  24. Vanitas, 1515
  25. Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap, 1516
  26. The Tribute Money, 1516
  27. Mary with Four Saints (Detail), 1518
  28. The Assumption of the Virgin (Detail 1), 1518
  29. The Assumption of the Virgin (Detail 2), 1518
  30. The Assumption of the Virgin (Detail 3), 1518
  31. The Assumption of the Virgin (Santa Maria de Frari in Venice), 1518
  32. Violante, 1518
  33. Andros Bacchanal, 1519
  34. The Worship of Venus, 1519
  35. The Worship of Venus (Detail), 1519
  36. Mary Magdalene with Christ and Angels, 1520
  37. Mary Magdalene with Christ and Angels (Detail), 1520
  38. Mary Magdalene with Saints, 1520
  39. Portrait of Tomaso or Vincenzo Mosti, 1520
  40. The Bravo, 1520
  41. Angel, 1522
  42. Resurrection of Christ (Averoldi Polyptych Brescia), 1522
  43. St. Sebastian (Averoldi Polyptych Brescia), 1522
  44. Bacchus and Ariadne, 1523
  45. Bacchus and Ariadne (Detail), 1523
  46. Portrait of Laura de Dianti, 1523
  47. Man with Gloves, 1524
  48. Deposition of Christ, 1525
  49. Federigo II Gonzaga, 1525
  50. Portrait of the Duke of Alba, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 1525
  51. Madonna with Saints and Members of the Pesaro Family, 1526
  52. Madonna with Saints and Members of the Pesaro Family (Detail), 1526
  53. Madonna with St. Agnese, 1528
  54. Madonna and Child with St. Catherine and a Rabbit, 1530
  55. Madonna and Child with Young St. John the Baptist and St. Catherine (Detail), 1530
  56. Mary Magdalen Repentant, 1531
  57. Portrait of Charles V with a Hound, 1533
  58. Portrait of Ippolito de Medici, 1533
  59. La Bella, 1536
  60. Portrait of Isabella d'Este, 1536
  61. Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga della Rovere, 1537
  62. Woman in a Fur Coat, 1537
  63. Portrait of Francesco Maria della Rovere, 1538
  64. Venus of Urbino, 1538
  65. Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple (Detail), 1539
  66. The Speech of Alfonso d'Avalo, 1541
  67. Clarice Strozzi, 1542
  68. Jupiter and Anthiope (Pardo Venus), 1542
  69. Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese, 1542
  70. Pope Paul III, 1543
  71. Pope Paul III and Nephews, 1543
  72. Portrait of Pope Paul III Farnese, 1543
  73. Danae and the Shower of Gold, 1544
  74. Portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti, 1545
  75. Portrait of Pietro Aretino, 1545
  76. Portrait of a Young Man (The Young Englishman), 1545
  77. St. John the Baptist, 1545
  78. Portrait of an Old Man (Pietro Cardinal Bembo), 1546
  79. The Vendramin Family, 1547
  80. Emperor Charles, 1548
  81. Empress Isabel of Portugal, 1548
  82. Portrait of Count Antonio Porcia, 1548
  83. Portrait of Pietro Aretino, 1548
  84. Venus with Organist and Cupid, 1548
  85. Mother Dolorosa, 1550
  86. Portrait of a Man, 1550
  87. Venus and Cupid with Organist, 1550
  88. King Philipp II, 1551
  89. King Philipp II (Detail), 1551
  90. St. Jerome, 1552
  91. Portrait of Philip II, 1553
  92. Danae, 1554
  93. Madonna, 1554
  94. Portrait of Marcantonio Trevisani, 1554
  95. Venus and Adonis, 1554
  96. Venus in Front of the Mirror, 1554
  97. Woman in White, 1555
  98. Girl with a Basket of Fruits (Lavinia), 1558
  99. Portrait of Fabrizio Salvaresio, 1558
  100. Deposition of Christ, 1559
  101. Diana and Acteon, 1559
  102. Diana and Callisto, 1559
  103. Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, 1559
  104. Perseus and Andromeda, 1559
  105. Salome with the head of St. John the Baptist, 1560
  106. Venus with Lute Player, 1560
  107. Mary with the Christ Child, 1561
  108. Portrait of Artist, 1561
  109. Titian's Daughter Lavinia, 1561
  110. Annunciation, 1562
  111. Self Portrait, 1562
  112. The Rape of Europa, 1562
  113. Venus Blindfolding Cupid, 1565
  114. Deposition of Christ, 1566
  115. Self Portrait, 1567
  116. Portrait of Jacopo Strada, 1568
  117. Nymph and Shepherd, 1570
  118. Rape of Lucretia (Tarquin and Lucretia), 1570
  119. Rape of Lucretia (Tarquin and Lucretia) (Detail), 1570
  120. The Fall of Man, 1570
  121. Rape of Lucretia (Tarquin and Lucretia), 1571
  122. Crowning with Thorns, 1575
  123. Crowning with Thorns (Detail), 1575
  124. Pieta, 1576
  125. Pieta (Detail), 1576

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