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
- Pope Alexander IV Presenting Jacopo Pesaro to St. Peter, 1509
- Gipsy Madonna, 1510
- Portrait of Ariosto, 1510
- Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman, 1510
- Portrait of a Woman called 'La Schiavona', 1510
- The Concert, 1510
- The Concert (Detail 1), 1510
- The Concert (Detail 2), 1510
- Titian's Paduan Frescoe, 1511
- Noli Me Tangere (Don't Touch Me), 1512
- The Concert, 1512
- The Three Ages of Man, 1512
- Sacred and Profane Love, 1514
- Sacred and Profane Love (Detail 2), 1514
- Sacred and Profane Love (Detail), 1514
- Baptism of Christ, 1515
- Flora, 1515
- Madonna of the Cherries, 1515
- Portrait of a Man, 1515
- Portrait of a Young Man, 1515
- Profane Love or Vanity, 1515
- Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, 1515
- Suicide of Lucretia, 1515
- Vanitas, 1515
- Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap, 1516
- The Tribute Money, 1516
- Mary with Four Saints (Detail), 1518
- The Assumption of the Virgin (Detail 1), 1518
- The Assumption of the Virgin (Detail 2), 1518
- The Assumption of the Virgin (Detail 3), 1518
- The Assumption of the Virgin (Santa Maria de Frari in Venice), 1518
- Violante, 1518
- Andros Bacchanal, 1519
- The Worship of Venus, 1519
- The Worship of Venus (Detail), 1519
- Mary Magdalene with Christ and Angels, 1520
- Mary Magdalene with Christ and Angels (Detail), 1520
- Mary Magdalene with Saints, 1520
- Portrait of Tomaso or Vincenzo Mosti, 1520
- The Bravo, 1520
- Angel, 1522
- Resurrection of Christ (Averoldi Polyptych Brescia), 1522
- St. Sebastian (Averoldi Polyptych Brescia), 1522
- Bacchus and Ariadne, 1523
- Bacchus and Ariadne (Detail), 1523
- Portrait of Laura de Dianti, 1523
- Man with Gloves, 1524
- Deposition of Christ, 1525
- Federigo II Gonzaga, 1525
- Portrait of the Duke of Alba, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 1525
- Madonna with Saints and Members of the Pesaro Family, 1526
- Madonna with Saints and Members of the Pesaro Family (Detail), 1526
- Madonna with St. Agnese, 1528
- Madonna and Child with St. Catherine and a Rabbit, 1530
- Madonna and Child with Young St. John the Baptist and St. Catherine (Detail), 1530
- Mary Magdalen Repentant, 1531
- Portrait of Charles V with a Hound, 1533
- Portrait of Ippolito de Medici, 1533
- La Bella, 1536
- Portrait of Isabella d'Este, 1536
- Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga della Rovere, 1537
- Woman in a Fur Coat, 1537
- Portrait of Francesco Maria della Rovere, 1538
- Venus of Urbino, 1538
- Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple (Detail), 1539
- The Speech of Alfonso d'Avalo, 1541
- Clarice Strozzi, 1542
- Jupiter and Anthiope (Pardo Venus), 1542
- Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese, 1542
- Pope Paul III, 1543
- Pope Paul III and Nephews, 1543
- Portrait of Pope Paul III Farnese, 1543
- Danae and the Shower of Gold, 1544
- Portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti, 1545
- Portrait of Pietro Aretino, 1545
- Portrait of a Young Man (The Young Englishman), 1545
- St. John the Baptist, 1545
- Portrait of an Old Man (Pietro Cardinal Bembo), 1546
- The Vendramin Family, 1547
- Emperor Charles, 1548
- Empress Isabel of Portugal, 1548
- Portrait of Count Antonio Porcia, 1548
- Portrait of Pietro Aretino, 1548
- Venus with Organist and Cupid, 1548
- Mother Dolorosa, 1550
- Portrait of a Man, 1550
- Venus and Cupid with Organist, 1550
- King Philipp II, 1551
- King Philipp II (Detail), 1551
- St. Jerome, 1552
- Portrait of Philip II, 1553
- Danae, 1554
- Madonna, 1554
- Portrait of Marcantonio Trevisani, 1554
- Venus and Adonis, 1554
- Venus in Front of the Mirror, 1554
- Woman in White, 1555
- Girl with a Basket of Fruits (Lavinia), 1558
- Portrait of Fabrizio Salvaresio, 1558
- Deposition of Christ, 1559
- Diana and Acteon, 1559
- Diana and Callisto, 1559
- Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, 1559
- Perseus and Andromeda, 1559
- Salome with the head of St. John the Baptist, 1560
- Venus with Lute Player, 1560
- Mary with the Christ Child, 1561
- Portrait of Artist, 1561
- Titian's Daughter Lavinia, 1561
- Annunciation, 1562
- Self Portrait, 1562
- The Rape of Europa, 1562
- Venus Blindfolding Cupid, 1565
- Deposition of Christ, 1566
- Self Portrait, 1567
- Portrait of Jacopo Strada, 1568
- Nymph and Shepherd, 1570
- Rape of Lucretia (Tarquin and Lucretia), 1570
- Rape of Lucretia (Tarquin and Lucretia) (Detail), 1570
- The Fall of Man, 1570
- Rape of Lucretia (Tarquin and Lucretia), 1571
- Crowning with Thorns, 1575
- Crowning with Thorns (Detail), 1575
- Pieta, 1576
- Pieta (Detail), 1576
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