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Tiziano Popoli
Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of colour, exerted a profound influence not only on painters of the late Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western artists. His career was successful from the start, and he became sought after by patrons, initially from Venice and its possessions, then joined by the north Italian princes, and finally the Habsburgs and the papacy. Along with Giorgione, he is considered a founder of the Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting. In 1590, the painter and art theorist Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo described Titian as "t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self-Portrait (Titian, Madrid)
''Self-Portrait'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian painter Titian. Dating to about 1560, when Titian would have been over 70 years old, it is the later of his two surviving self-portraits. It is held in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. The painting is a realistic and unflattering depiction of the physical effects of old age, and as such shows none of the self-confidence of his Self-Portrait (Titian, Berlin), earlier self-portrait (–47) now in Berlin. That painting shows Titian in three-quarter view in an alert pose. Titian looks remote, aged and gaunt, staring into the middle distance, seemingly lost in thought.Hope & Fletcher & Dunkerton, 158 Yet the portrait conveys dignity, authority and the mark of a master painter. Description Titian is dressed in simple but expensive clothes. He holds a paintbrush In the lower left corner of the canvas. This gives legitimacy to his status as a renowned painter; and element absent in the earlier Berlin portrai, and makes the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
