2. 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:
3. 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.
4. During his long career, Titian
experimented with many different
styles of painting which embody the
development of art during his epoch.
5. He was recognized by his
contemporaries as
“the sun amidst small stars“.
7. • Titian was born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Republic of
Venice.
• At the age of about 10-12 he was sent to an uncle in
Venice, Sebastian Zuccato . This painter was acquainted
with 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
8. Growth
• During this period (1516-1530), which may be called the
period of his mastery and maturity, Titian undertook
larger and more complex subjects and for the first time
attempted a monumental style.
• Titian was now at the height of his fame.
• In 1525 he married a lady named Cecilia, thereby
legitimizing their first child, Pomponio, and two others
followed, including Titian's favorite, Orazio, who became
his assistant.
9. 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.
10. Final Years
• During the last twenty-five years of his life (1550-1576) the
Titian worked mainly for Philip II as a portrait-painter.
• Titian became more self-critical, an insatiable
perfectionist, keeping some pictures in his studio for ten
years, never wearying of returning to them and retouching
them, constantly adding new expressions at once more
refined, concise, and subtle.
• Titian was approximately 90 years old when the plague
raging in Venice took him on 27 August 1576.
11. Genres of Titian’s works
Titian contributed to all of the major areas of Renaissance
art:
Painting altarpieces.
Portraits.
Mythologies.
Pastoral landscapes with figures.
13. 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).
15. • Titian achieved international fame through his portraits,
including those of Emperor Charles V and Pope Paul III.
• His earliest portraits (Portrait of a Man) follow
Giorgione in the melancholy or dreamy mood portrayed.
• In the portrait of Filippo Archinto , the gravity and
importance of this archbishop of Milan is suggested by
the monumentality of his presence and the subdued
palette, while our attention is drawn to the sensitively
portrayed hands and face.
Portraits
16. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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
