Greatest Venetian Artist
- Renaissance - -best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in Rome ? Titian -The...
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Greatest Venetian Artist
The Greatest Venetian Artist
Titian, whose name in Italian is Tiziano Vecellio, is one of the premier artists of his era. Little is known about Titian's birth date, but it is known that he was born in Pieve di Cadore, which is north of Venice. Titian is considered to have been the greatest 16th-century Venetian painter, and the shaper of the Venetian coloristic and painterly tradition. He is one of the key figures in the history of Western art. He continues to impress me, the more I see his work. Most of his art was from the High Renaissance Early Mannerist era. Two major contributions to Titians style, with the female nude and the landscaping, were originated by the great Venetian artist, Giorgione. Titian's style, consisting of classic Venetian color and free brush work, was also inspired mostly by Giorgione.
Titian begins his long life of art in Venice, where he trains with a number of Venetian artists. He is generally regarded as the leading painter of the Venetian school. In 1500, Titian entered the workshop of Gentile Bellini, where he received his basic training as a painter. This was followed by further experience with Giovanni Bellini. The Bellini brothers, along with Giorgione and Anton Maria Zenetti, were the majority of Venetian artists that taught the young Titian. Giorgione was not only a teacher to Titian, but he was also a good friend, and upon Giorgione's death in 1510, Titian was inspired to complete several of his unfinished paintings. Upon the death of Giovanni Bellini, 1516, Titian became official painter to the Republic.
In the painting "The Madonna Di Ca' Pesaro," Titian effected a crucial change in Renaissance "sacre conversazioni" (paintings of the Virgin enthroned among saints) by placing the Virgin, who is traditionally at the compositions center, halfway up its right side. The Virgin is traditionally at the composition's center. This new scheme, one which made full use of the traditional...
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