TIZIANOVecellio

TITIAN

Introduction.

Facts about Titian.

o Early years.

o Growth.

o Maturity.

o Final years.

Genres of Titian’s works. Examples of the most famous works of the painter.

Conclusion. Role of Titian in Italian art.

Outline:

Introduction

Tiziano Vecellio (1488–1576), known as Titian, was

the greatest Venetian artist of the sixteenth century.

the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the

Italian Renaissance.

the first painter to have a mainly international

clientele.

During his long career, Titian

experimented with many different

styles of painting which embody the

development of art during his epoch.

He was recognized by his contemporaries as

“the sun amidst small stars“.

Facts about Titian

• Titian was born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Republic ofVenice.

• At the age of about 10-12 he was sent to an uncle inVenice, Sebastian Zuccato . This painter was acquaintedwith Bellinis, leading artists in the city. One of them,Giovanni Bellinis, found a group of young painters,among them Giovanni Palma da Serinalta, Lorenzo Lotto,Giorgio da Castelfranco (Giorgione).

• Titian joined Giorgione as an assistant.

Early Years

Growth

• During this period (1516-1530), which may be called theperiod of his mastery and maturity, Titian undertooklarger and more complex subjects and for the first timeattempted a monumental style.

• Titian was now at the height of his fame.

• In 1525 he married a lady named Cecilia, therebylegitimizing their first child, Pomponio, and two othersfollowed, including Titian's favorite, Orazio, who becamehis assistant.

Maturity

• During the next period (1530-1550), works of Titian were

influenced by ancient culture.

• The artist began his series of reclining Venuses in which is

recognized the effect or the direct reflection of the

impression produced on the master by contact with ancient

sculpture.

• Titian had also shown himself as a masterful portrait-

painter.

Final Years

• During the last twenty-five years of his life (1550-1576) theTitian worked mainly for Philip II as a portrait-painter.

• Titian became more self-critical, an insatiableperfectionist, keeping some pictures in his studio for tenyears, never wearying of returning to them and retouchingthem, constantly adding new expressions at once morerefined, concise, and subtle.

• Titian was approximately 90 years old when the plagueraging in Venice took him on 27 August 1576.

Genres of Titian’s works

Titian contributed to all of the major areas of Renaissance art:

Painting altarpieces.

Portraits.

Mythologies.

Pastoral landscapes with figures.

Painting altarpieces

Assumption of the

Virgin

Death of Saint Peter Martyr

Painting altarpieces

• Titian's famous masterpiece is the Assumption of the

Virgin for the high altar of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei

Frari (1516–18).

• The pictorial structure of the Assumption – is uniting

in the same composition two or three scenes

superimposed on different levels, earth and heaven,

the temporal and the infinite.

• Death of Saint Peter Martyr for the Church of SS.

Giovanni e Paolo (1526–30).

PortraitsEmperor Charles V Emperor Charles V

Pope Paul III

Portrait of a Man Portrait of Filippo Archinto

• Titian achieved international fame through his portraits,including those of Emperor Charles V and Pope Paul III.

• His earliest portraits (Portrait of a Man) followGiorgione in the melancholy or dreamy mood portrayed.

• In the portrait of Filippo Archinto , the gravity andimportance of this archbishop of Milan is suggested bythe monumentality of his presence and the subduedpalette, while our attention is drawn to the sensitivelyportrayed hands and face.

Portraits

Titian's portraits are remarkable for the

way in which they seem to express a

psychological dimension while also

suggesting something of the sitter's

status and importance.

Mythologies

Venus and the Lute Player

Venus and Adonis Bacchus and Ariadne

Venus of Urbino

Mythologies

• In Bacchus and Ariadne Bacchus is shown leaping

from his chariot, startling the lovely Ariadne. Titian

derived the subject matter from literary descriptions of

classical works of art.

• Venus, the mythological goddess of love, is the

protagonist of a number of works by Titian, the best

known probably being the so-called Venus of Urbino.

Painted for Francesco Maria I della Rovere's private

chambers, this reclining nude is at once idealized and

erotic.

Later in his career, Titian turned to the theme in

paintings for his most important patrons, such

as Philip II of Spain. As often happened in his

workshop, variants would then be carried out

for others. This is the case in both Venus and

the Lute Player and Venus and Adonis.

Pastoral Landscapes with figures

Madonna of the

Rabbit

Feast of the GodsThe Three Ages of

Man

Role of Titian in Italian Art

Titian is the greatest Venetian artist of the 16th

century, the shaper of the Venetian coloristic

and painterly tradition.

Titian contributed to all of the major areas of

Renaissance art.

Role of Titian in Italian Art

• Titian is one of the key figures in the history of

Western art.

• His painting methods, particularly in the

application and use of color, influenced not

only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but

on future generations of Western art.

References

1. Titian. The Complete Works.

URL: http://www.titian-tizianovecellio.org/

2.Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History / Titian.

URL: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tita/hd_tita.htm

3. Titian Art.

URL: http://www.moodbook.com/art/titian.html