Portrait of Tiziano Vecellio Titian

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c.1485-1576

Italian High Renaissance Painter

Titian (1488 or 1490-1576) was a pupil of Giovanni Bellini, then of Giorgione. Even at the death of his second teacher in 1510, the artist was already famous. His only follower, to him he owed his sense of nature, his command of colour, his manner of suggesting forms. To this were added the ardent temperament and vivid personality which enabled him very quickly to establish himself as a leading figure in Venetian painting in the sixteenth century. He worked on a variety of subjects and genres, including religious paintings, portraits and history canvases.

After 1520, Titian's fame reached its peak. Princes and monarchs were impressed by the magnificent classicism of his works. The artist gave colour a creative power and dramatic tension never before achieved. In 1530 in Bologna he met Emperor Charles V, who became his influential patron and encouraged him to devote himself to intensive portraiture. In order to please the ruler, as well as other noble people in these circles, Titian was able to highlight their taste for glamour and express their greatness.

Around 1540, the artist was in thrall to the Mannerist trends then current in Venice, which are evident in "The Crowning with Thorns" (1543). From 1550 onwards, his studio was active: the painter executed numerous commissions for churches and also recreated mythological scenes for the royal courts. The lovely "Venus with a Mirror", painted for Philip II of Spain, was followed by "Danae", then by "Venus and Adonis", a work of which the artist later produced a number of versions. The colour, laid on in quick and dense strokes, plays perfectly freely with the light, mimicking reality in a more determined and dramatic way. In "Flaying of Marsyas", crimson recoils from the tortured body. In 1576, the artist died of the plague and left unfinished a Pietà, a large-scale composition, complex and shattering, which he dedicated to his tomb.

230 Titian Artworks

Portrait of Pierluigi Farnese with His Standard Bearer, 1546 by Titian | Canvas Print
SKU: 12953-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:106 x 96 cm
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte , Napoli, Italy

Presentation of the Virgin (Presentation of Mary in the Temple), c.1534/38 by Titian | Canvas Print
SKU: 12952-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:335 x 775 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy

Portrait of Lavinia, Daughter of Titian, c.1565 by Titian | Canvas Print
SKU: 12951-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:111 x 90.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Saint Mary with Child and Saints Stephen, Jerome and Maurice, c.1520 by Titian | Canvas Print
SKU: 12950-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:92.5 x 138 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Tarquinius and Lucretia, 1570 by Titian | Canvas Print

Tarquinius and Lucretia 1570

Giclée Canvas Print
$65.93
SKU: 12949-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:114 x 100 cm
Art Gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

Gian Giacomo Bartolotti da Parma, c.1515/20 by Titian | Canvas Print
SKU: 12948-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:88 x 75 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Elector Johann Friedrich of Saxony, c.1550/51 by Titian | Canvas Print
SKU: 12947-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:103.5 x 83 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Madonna and Child with Saint Agnes and Saint John Baptist, n.d. by Titian | Canvas Print
SKU: 12946-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:unknown
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France

Saint Jerome, 1523 by Titian | Canvas Print

Saint Jerome 1523

Giclée Canvas Print
$62.50
SKU: 12945-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:80 x 102 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Bravo (Il Bravo), 1520 by Titian | Canvas Print

The Bravo (Il Bravo) 1520

Giclée Canvas Print
$62.09
SKU: 12944-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:77 x 66.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Portrait of a Man, n.d. by Titian | Canvas Print

Portrait of a Man n.d.

Giclée Canvas Print
$64.96
SKU: 12943-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:118 x 96 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Young Woman with Fur, c.1535 by Titian | Canvas Print

Young Woman with Fur c.1535

Giclée Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: 12942-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:95 x 63 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Self Portrait, 1562 by Titian | Canvas Print

Self Portrait 1562

Giclée Canvas Print
$57.42
SKU: 12941-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:96 x 75 cm
Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

Entombment of Christ, 1560 by Titian | Canvas Print

Entombment of Christ 1560

Giclée Canvas Print
$65.38
SKU: 12940-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:99.5 x 115.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Pope Paul III Farnese, a.1546 by Titian | Canvas Print

Pope Paul III Farnese a.1546

Giclée Canvas Print
$66.21
SKU: 12939-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:89 x 78 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Benedetto Varchi, c.1540 by Titian | Canvas Print

Benedetto Varchi c.1540

Giclée Canvas Print
$59.34
SKU: 12938-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:117 x 91 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Young Woman in a Black Dress, c.1515 by Titian | Canvas Print

Young Woman in a Black Dress c.1515

Giclée Canvas Print
$66.12
SKU: 12937-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:59.5 x 44.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

The Gypsy Madonna, c.1510 by Titian | Canvas Print

The Gypsy Madonna c.1510

Giclée Canvas Print
$58.38
SKU: 12936-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:65.8 x 83.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Christ and the Adulteress, c.1512/15 by Titian | Canvas Print

Christ and the Adulteress c.1512/15

Giclée Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: 12935-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:82.5 x 136.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Jacopo Pesaro Presented to St. Peter by Pope Alexander VI, c.1513 by Titian | Canvas Print
SKU: 12934-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:145 x 183 cm
Koninklijk Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium

Ecce Homo, 1543 by Titian | Canvas Print

Ecce Homo 1543

Giclée Canvas Print
$50.27
SKU: 12933-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:242 x 361 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Allegory of Married Life, n.d. by Titian | Canvas Print

Allegory of Married Life n.d.

Giclée Canvas Print
$72.93
SKU: 12932-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:121 x 107 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Self Portrait with Friends, n.d. by Titian | Canvas Print

Self Portrait with Friends n.d.

Giclée Canvas Print
$73.48
SKU: 12931-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:unknown
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Diana and Callisto, 1568 by Titian | Canvas Print

Diana and Callisto 1568

Giclée Canvas Print
$68.68
SKU: 12930-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:183 x 200 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

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