Ettore Tito (17 December 1859 – 26 June 1941) was an Italian artist particularly known for his paintings of contemporary life and landscapes in

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and the surrounding region. He trained at the

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in Venice and from 1894 to 1927 was the Professor of Painting there. Tito exhibited widely and was awarded the Grand Prize in painting at the 1915

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. In 1926 he was made a member of the

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. Tito was born in

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in the

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and died in Venice, the city which was his home for most of his life.

Biography

Ettore Tito was born in

(near Naples),

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, on 17 December 1859 to Ubaldo Tito, a merchant marine captain and Luigia Novello Tito. His mother was Venetian, and when he was a small boy the family returned to Venice where he was to live for the rest of his life. He began his art studies at an early age, first with the Dutch artist Cecil van Haanen, who was to become a lifelong friend, and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti where he had been accepted at the age of 12 before he had even reached the legal age for admission. At the Accademia he studied primarily under

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and graduated at the age of 17.

Career

His first major success came in 1887 when his painting ''Pescheria vecchia a Venezia'' (a depiction of the old fish market on the

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) won great praise at the Esposizione Nazionale Artistica in Venice and was subsequently bought by the

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.Adelson (2006) p. 212 Tito exhibited widely, and his work was popular beyond his native Italy. His paintings were to be seen in each

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from its inception in 1895 until 1914 and again in 1920 when the Biennale resumed after

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. He won the ''Premio Città di Venezia'' (City of Venice Prize) at the 1897 Biennale and a ''Grande Medaglia d'Oro'' (Grand Gold Medal) at the 1903 Biennale. In 1909 an entire room at the Biennale was devoted to a retrospective of his work with 45 paintings and a bronze sculpture of

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on exhibit. (Entire rooms devoted to his work were also presented at the 1922, 1930 and 1936 Biennali.) Abroad, ''Chioggia'' won a Gold medal at the 1900 ''Exposition Universelle'' in Paris and was subsequently purchased by the

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. His painting, ''La gomena'' (The Cable), won the Grand Prize at the Exposition Universelle et Internationale in

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in 1910, and in 1915 he was awarded the Grand Prize in Italian painting at the

in San Francisco. An exhibit of 18 of his canvases was also held in

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in 1926, the year in which he was made a member of the

. While his earlier paintings were largely depictions of the people, everyday life, and landscapes of Venice and the

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, after 1900 he increasingly turned to mythological and symbolic subjects inspired by 18th-century Venetian painting, both for his oil paintings and for the

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s he painted at the Villa Berlinghieri in Rome and the Palazzo Martinengo in Venice. By the late 19th century, he was also in demand for his drawings and sketches which illustrated several British and American magazines, including ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Punch''. In a departure from his usual style, he produced slightly risqué

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illustrations of four proverbs featuring depictions of emancipated women for a French magazine in the 1920s. One of them, ''Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera'' ("Heaven helps those who help themselves") is held at the

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. Tito was one of a group of painters with close ties to the English and American expatriate community in Venice which had its hub at the

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and was a friend of both

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and

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. Over the years, the family's properties, Villa Tito in

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and the Palazzotto Tito in Venice, were also gathering places for artists such as

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, and Mariano Fortuny as well as musicians and writers. He painted the portraits of many members of his circle and their families including: composer

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; art historian

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; poet

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; journalist

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; artist Nerina Pisani Volpi (whose husband,

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, and their children were also painted by Tito); artist Rita D'Aronco, the daughter of the Tito's close friend,

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; the children of Edith and Cosimo Rucellai; and Dina Velluti, the sister of Venetian sculptor Gigetto Velluti. The Velluti portrait, ''La Sarabanda'' (The

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) was painted in 1934 and is one of the best examples of his late portraiture style. In 1894 Tito succeeded Pompeo Molmenti as the Professor of Painting at the Accademia in Venice, a post he held until 1927. Amongst his pupils were Eugenio Da Venezia, Cesare Mainella, Lucillo Grassi, Giuseppe Ciardi, Giovanni Korompay, Guido Marussig, Domenico Failutti, and the

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painter Cagnaccio di San Pietro.Sgarbi (2002) p. 207 One of the most important commissions in his later years came in 1929, when at the age of 70 he was asked to create a 400 square metre painting for the

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of the Chiesa di Santa Maria di Nazareth in Venice to replace the one by

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destroyed in

. His last major work, ''I maestri veneziani'' (The Venetian Masters) was completed in 1937 and shown at the Venice Biennale in 1940. Considered his "spiritual testament", the painting depicts Venice personified as a young woman surrounded by the city's greatest artists (Tiepolo,

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and

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) who pay homage to her while

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and a

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look on.

Death

Tito died in Venice on 26 June 1941 at the age of 81. His son, Luigi Tito (1907–1991) was also a noted painter. Luigi's son, Pietro Giuseppe (Eppe) Tito (born 1959), is a noted sculptor. In September 2003, a retrospective exhibition of the works of Ettore, Luigi, and Pietro Giuseppe Tito was held at the

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Works

Paintings

Many of Tito's paintings are held in private collections, most notably the

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collection. Those permanently held in museums include: *''La pescheria vecchia a Venezia'' (The Old Fish Market in Venice) (1887)

, Rome *''Breezy Day in Venice'' (1891) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston *''Autunno'' (Autumn) (1897) Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice * ''Sulla laguna'' (On the

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) (1897) Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice *''Chioggia'' (1898)

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, Paris * ''The Wave'' (1902) Museo de Arte Italiano,

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*''La nascita di Venere'' (The Birth of Venus) (1903) Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice *''Dopo la pioggia a Chioggia'' (After the Rain in

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) (1905), Galleria d'Arte Moderna "Ricci Oddi",

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*''L'amazzone'' (The

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) (1906) Frugone Collection, Museo Villa Grimaldi Fassio,

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*''Baccanale'' (1906) Galleria d'Arte Moderna,

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*''Pagine d'amore'' (The Love Letter) (1907) Frugone Collection, Museo Villa Grimaldi Fassio, Genoa *''Amore e le Parche'' (Cupid and the

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) (1909) Galleria d'Arte Moderna,

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*''Il bagno'' (The Bath) (1909) Musée d'Orsay, Paris *''Le dune'' (The Dunes) (1909) Galleria d'Arte Moderna

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*''La gomena'' (The Cable) (1909) Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome *''Laguna'' (Lagoon) (1910) Frugone Collection, Museo Villa Grimaldi Fassio, Genoa *''Oxen Plowing'' (1911)

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, New York City *''Le ninfe'' (The Nymphs) (1911)

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, Piacenza * ''Autunno'' (Autumn - portrait of Tito's sons) (1914) Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome *' (Self-portrait) (1919),

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, Florence *''L'aria e l'acqua'' (Air and Water) (1922) Art Gallery of New South Wales,

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* '' Portrait of the Marchesa Malacrida'' (1926) Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice

Murals

*Villa Berlinghieri, Rome (painted 1917) – Tito created a series of

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s for the entry hall, with allegorical allusions to the family's history as well as scenes depicting ''Fruits of the Earth'', ''Play'', ''Study'', and ''Repose''. As of 2010, the villa was the residence of the

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n Ambassador to Italy and was undergoing restoration. * Palazzo D'Anna Viaro Martinengo Volpi di Misurata, Venice (painted 1921) – The 16th century palazzo on the Grand Canal was owned by

who commissioned Tito to create a ceiling painting for the ballroom with allegorical depictions of Italy's conquest of

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. The palazzo is still owned by the Volpi family. *Chiesa di Santa Maria di Nazareth (Chiesa degli Scalzi), Venice (completed 1934) – The

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vault of the church had a large fresco by

, ''Trasporto della Santa Casa a Loreto'', depicting the transportation by angels of the Virgin Mary's house from

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to Loreto. The vault and its fresco were severely damaged by Austrian bombardment during World War I. The fresco was beyond repair, although a few pieces were salvaged and taken to the Accademia in Venice, and Tito was asked to create a replacement for the rebuilt vault. He chose as his subject the Council of Ephesus proclamation of Mary the Mother of God. Entitled ''Gloria di Maria dopo il Concilio di Efeso'', the painting was commissioned in 1929 and completed in 1934.Mazzato (2007) p. 32-33 Tito's son, Luigi, and several other young artists assisted him in its final execution.

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External links

(The Glory of Mary after the Council of Ephesus), painting by Ettore Tito on the nave ceiling of the Chiesa di Santa Maria di Nazareth in Venice, completed in 1934
''I maestri veneziani''
(The Venetian Masters), Tito's last major painting, completed in 1937
Illustrated biographical sketch of Ettore Tito
on the website of Eugenio Da Venezia {{DEFAULTSORT:Tito, Ettore 1859 births 1941 deaths People from Castellammare di Stabia Artists from Campania 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni Members of the Royal Academy of Italy 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists