Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects.
Titian, the greatest Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. He was recognized early in his own lifetime as a supremely talented painter, and his reputation has in the intervening centuries never suffered a decline. A few of his best-known works include Venus of Urbino and Assumption.
Titian was the greatest painter of 16th-century Venice, and the first painter to have a mainly international clientele. During his long career, he experimented with many different styles of painting which embody the development of art during his epoch.
In 1590 the art theorist Giovanni Lomazzo called Titian, "the sun amidst small stars not only among the Italians but all the painters of the world" and masters such as Rubens, Rembrandt, and Tintoretto show a debt to Titian in terms of composition, color, and use of looser brushstrokes.
Titian, born Tiziano Vecellio around 1488–1490 in the small town of Pieve di Cadore near Belluno, Italy, was one of the most significant artists of the Italian Renaissance and is widely regarded as the leading painter of the Venetian school.
The Concert Titian 1510 The Holy Family with a Shepherd Titian 1510 The Legend of Polydorus Titian 1505-1510 Madonna and Child with Sts Anthony of Padua and Roch Titian 1511 The Gipsy Madonna Titian 1510-1511 The Healing of the Wrathful Son Titian 1511 The Miracle of the Jealous Husband Titian 1511
For over sixty years, Titian was to be viewed as a masterly painter, without peer in Venice. In 1516, Titian created his masterpiece, Assumption of the Virgin for the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. It is still there today.