Portrait of Tiziano Vecellio Titian

Tiziano Vecellio Titian Giclée Fine Art Prints 3 of 10

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

Page 3 of 10
Perseus and Andromeda, c.1554/56 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$69.18
SKU: 3181-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:175 x 192 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

The Supper at Emmaus, c.1535 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$61.78
SKU: 9436-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:169 x 244 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Tribute Money, c.1516 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$55.15
SKU: 9507-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:75 x 56 cm
Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany

Self Portrait, c.1560 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$92.86
SKU: 6832-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:86 x 65 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

Portrait of a Young Man, c.1520 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$62.31
SKU: 19395-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:89.3 x 74.3 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Venus and the Lute Player, c.1565/70 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$73.53
SKU: 9541-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:165.1 x 209.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Portrait of a Knight of the Order of Santiago, 1542 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$63.13
SKU: 12041-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:unknown
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Portrait of Francesco Maria Della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, n.d. by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$65.88
SKU: 9473-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:143 x 100 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Girl Before the Mirror, a.1515 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$59.28
SKU: 19402-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:89 x 71 cm
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Entombment of Christ, 1560 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$65.47
SKU: 12940-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:99.5 x 115.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Portrait of Ippolito de' Medici, 1533 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$49.91
SKU: 9481-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:139 x 107 cm
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy

Man Holding a Flute, c.1560/65 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$97.31
SKU: 9537-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:97.8 x 76.2 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA

Portrait of Ippolito Riminaldi, c.1528 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$60.80
SKU: 12037-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:116 x 93 cm
Accademia di San Luca, Rome, Italy

Portrait of Doge Marcantonio Trevisan, c.1553/54 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$65.33
SKU: 19393-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:100 x 86.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

An Allegory of Prudence, c.1550/65 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$67.67
SKU: 9552-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:75.5 x 68.4 cm
National Gallery, London, UK

Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap, c.1516 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$65.06
SKU: 3182-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:unknown
Frick Collection, New York, USA

Pieta, c.1575/76 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$74.28
SKU: 6831-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:389 x 351 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy

Virgin (The Averoldi Polyptych), 1522 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$53.57
SKU: 12043-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:unknown
Church of Santi Nazaro e Celso, Brescia, Italy

Portrait of Jacopo Sannazaro, c.1514/18 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$64.23
SKU: 9559-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:85.7 x 72.7 cm
The Royal Collection, London, UK

Crowning with Thorns of Christ, c.1570 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$49.91
SKU: 19394-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:280 x 182 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Self Portrait with Friends, n.d. by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$73.58
SKU: 12931-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:unknown
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Holy Family and a Shepherd, c.1510 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$56.12
SKU: 9525-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:99.1 x 139.1 cm
National Gallery, London, UK

Saint Margaret and the Dragon, c.1565/70 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$63.82
SKU: 12961-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:116.5 x 98 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Man with a Glove, c.1517/20 by Titian | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$63.13
SKU: 9501-TTV
Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Original Size:87 x 73 cm
Musee Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica, France

Top