Tiziano Titian Research Paper

Tiziano Vecellio, also known as Titian, was a versatile Italian painter. And was one of the artists that dominated the Italian Renaissance. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, a small town located at the foot of the Venetian side of the Alps during the year of 1490. But, he died in 1576 at the age of 86. Titian, who was born in Pieve di Cadore moved to Venice at the age of 10. During his lifetime, many political and social events occurred. There were 3 main wars that happened in Italy during Titian’s life, known as the Italian wars, these wars were about who could control Italy. The first war began in 1494 until 1498 called the Italian War. The year right after that, the next war began, known as the Second Italian War and ended in 1504. The third and final war began in 1551 and lasted until 1559.
Titian first went to mosaic artist Sebastiano Zuccato workshop at the age of ten. Though soon left him to join another artist, Gentile Bellini. Gentile Bellini died in 1507, causing Titian to …show more content…
Before he became an individual artist he worked with Giorgione and painted pastoral landscapes. He also sketched many pictures, an example of which is, “Landscape with Goat.” Titian’s first commissioned piece was the, “Assumption of the Virgin.” A piece made for the high altar of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, in which he used a lot of bold colors. Titian was also famous for creating portraits of leading figures. An example of one is a painting of Pope Paul III, which took him six months to paint. He was also invited into Charles V court to paint his portrait. A lot of Titian’s paintings had to do with Roman goddesses, usually Venus. An example of a Roman inspired painting was “Venus and Adonis." Which he created for Philip II, and got inspired by Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.” Titian’s soon developed a new style which was much different than his beginning style. He made his paintings new by using rough, loose brush