11 Things You Didn’t Know About Titian

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Titian

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Titian

Titian is largely regarded as the greatest Venetian school Italian Renaissance painter. His reputation as a supremely outstanding painter was established early in his own lifetime, and it has never waned over the ages. Titian is well recognized for his brilliant use of colour, and his painterly style had a lasting impact long into the seventeenth century. Titian created altarpieces, portraits, mythology, and pastoral landscapes with figures, contributing to all of the key genres of Renaissance art.

Italian artist Titian was born in Pieve di Cadore, a small community nestled among the Alps\’ highest mountain peaks, to the north of Venice. At the age of nine, he and his brother Francesco travelled to Venice to live with an uncle and become an artist\’s apprentice. Titian completed his famous frescoes at Padua\’s \’Scuola del Santo\’ in 1511. With confidence in composition, depth of shapes, and chromatic balance, his style matured. Due to these characteristics, his work played a crucial role in the development of Venetian and European painting. Titian, who is regarded as the key figure in the 16th-century Venetian style, created artwork for King Philip II, Pope Paul III, and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

He gained recognition as one of Venice\’s top artists around 1518 after finishing the \”Assumption of the Virgin.\” Following that, Titian began a distinguished career as a painter, gaining a lot of encouragement in his attempt from a variety of high commissions. Around the middle of the 16th century, he was in high demand in the northern Italian courts, and word of his fame quickly travelled across the continent. Emperor Charles V recognised him as the \”first painter\” and promoted him to the position of Count Palatine. During his lifetime, he painted astounding mythology-inspired works of art as well as portraits of some of the top figures of the time. He maintained a lifelong fascination with colour, and up until the time of his passing, his works still exuded incredible intensity. Titian\’s artistic output, which is best known for his command of colour, had a huge impact on numerous succeeding generations of artists.

11 lesser-known facts about Titian

1. During his lifetime, the artist was given various nicknames, most famously \”da Cadore\”. This very briefly describes his location of birth. He hails from the northeastern Italian province of Cadore. Other nicknames for him included \”Il Divino\” and \”The Sun Amidst Small Stars,\” the latter of which was a reference to the famous concluding phrase of Dante\’s Paradiso.
2. Titian and Giorgione were friends as well as adversaries. They frequently collaborated on the same projects, learning from one another as they developed as artists.

   

3. Much of Titian’s work has been lost or destroyed. There was a fire in the Doges Palace in 1577 which destroyed many pieces.
4. He established himself as an interpreter of mythology with works such as ‘Flora’ and ‘Sacred and Profane Love’.
5. There is Titian’s statue in the centre of the Baroque monument.

   

6. He was the first painter to have a mainly international client.
7. Both his wife and daughter died giving birth to their child.
8. He created his final work with the intention of it to decorate his tomb at the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice.

   

9. While in Tuscany painters relied more on design, producing structured and clean-cut works, in Venice Titian developed a style throughout his career that relied more on the free flow of colour, imbuing his works with emotion and atmosphere.
10. Between 1554 and 1562 Titian painted six mythological canvases for Philip II of Spain, which he called his ‘poesie’ paintings which are based on poetical texts, notably Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
11. Titian’s brushwork has a beauty of it’s own, irrespective of what it represents. He brought to new heights the traditional Venetian love of sensuous colour and evolved a revolutionary style of expressive brushwork.