Artworks of Tiziano Vecelli (Titian)

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (1488 –1576) known in English as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth. Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante's Paradiso), Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.

Тициан Вечеллио да Кадоре — один из величайших художников всех времен и народов, являющийся — наряду с Леонардо, Рафаэлем и Микеланджело — одним из четырех титанов итальянского Возрождения. "Королем живописцев и живописцем королей" называли Тициана еще при жизни. Открытия Тициана в области живописи — цветовая лепка формы, нюансировка краски, изумительное богатство колорита — оказали огромное воздействие на мастеров последующего времени. Трудно назвать другого, кроме Тициана, художника, который оказал бы столь сильное влияние на других творцов.