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Tizian, whose full name was Tiziano Vezellio, was one of the grandmasters among the Italian Renaissance painters.
Born 1477 in Pieve di Cardone.
Died on August 27, 1576 in Venice.
Tizian, who became almost one hundred years old, was regarded as an incredibly versatile painter of Renaissance. The artist, who became known especially for his psychologically expressive portraits, completed his apprenticeship with Gentile Bellini, the famous Venetian painter. In his oeuvre, there are numerous representations of Venus; the famous Dresden Picture "Sleeping Venus" was created in collaboration with Tizian's fellow painter friend Giorgione. The latter strongly enriched Tizian's style during his early work. Tizian never got tired of experimenting and around 1520, his compositionally very centered style became more complex, not only with regard to composition, but also by means of color differentiation. This can be seen from a masterpiece of this period: "The Pesaro Madonna", 1519 - 1526.
Funded by the Habsburg Emperor Charles V., Tizian became one of the most successful painters of his time. Charles and other princes became the motives of a number of very expressive portraits. In addition to that, further orders followed covering mythological and allegorical themes, which increasingly received erotic allusions: for example "Venus of Urbino" (1538). After such delicate orderers' preferences, Tizian dedicated his late work to religious themes again. This artist was mainly esteemed as a colorist, up to the painters of the Impressionist movement. |
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Oil Paintings