ARTIST OF THE WEEK: 49. Titian, ACJ Art Academy

Born: c. 1488/90; Pieve di Cadore, Italy 

Died: 27 August 1576; Venice, Italy
Active Years: 1505 - 1576
Nationality: Italian
Art Movement: High Renaissance, Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
Field: painting
Influenced by: Albrecht Durer, Giorgione, Raphael, Michelangelo
Influenced on: Jacopo Bassano, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velazquez, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Nicolas Poussin, Edgar Degas, Anton Raphael Mengs, Anthony van Dyck, John Singer Sargent, William Dobson, Claudio Coello, Palma Vecchio, Palma il Giovane, Joshua Reynolds
Teachers: Giovanni Bellini, Gentile Bellini
Pupils: El Greco, Annibale Carracci, Tintoretto
Friends/Co-workers: Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto

Titian was an Italian painter during the Renaissance, born around 1488/90 and died on August 27, 1576. He is considered one of the most important painters of the 16th-century Venetian school. Born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno, Titian was often called “da Cadore”, which derived from the name of his hometown.

Pieve di Cadore, Veneto, Italy

Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars", Titian was one of the most versatile Italian painters versed in portraits, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the use of colors, had a great influence not only on painters in the late Italian Renaissance period, but also on future generations of Western art. 

Titian died of a fever during an epidemic outbreak in Venice. His body was buried in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, and his unfinished work "Pietà" was completed by Palma il Giovane. He lies near his famous painting, “Madonna di Ca' Pesaro (Pesaro Madonna).”

Pietà (c.1576)

Pesaro Madonna,(1519–1526)

Tomb of Titian

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