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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 16th 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 10-12 he was sent to an uncle in Venice,Sebastian Zuccato. This painter was acquainted withBellinis, leading artists. One of them, Giovanni Bellinis,found a group of young painters, among them GiovanniPalma da Serinalta, Lorenzo Lotto, Giorgio daCastelfranco (Giorgione).
• Titian joined Giorgione as an assistant.
Early Years
Growth
• During the period of his mastery and maturity
(1516-1530), Titian for the first time attempted a
monumental style.
• Titian was now at the height of his fame.
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 of the impression produced by his
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.
• 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
Portraits
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.
This reclining nude is at once idealized and erotic.
Later in his career, Titian turned to the theme in
paintings for his 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