Italian painter (c.1490–1576)
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Titian turned pigment into an argument that color could carry as much weight as drawing — a claim that split Renaissance art theory and shaped how painters thought about light and surface for centuries after his death.
Born around 1488 near Belluno, Tiziano Vecellio built a career that moved from Venetian commissions to the courts of north Italian princes, then to the Habsburgs and the papacy. With Giorgione, he founded the Venetian school of Renaissance painting, working portraits, mythological scenes, and religious subjects with equal command. His method — especially his handling of color — influenced not just his Italian contemporaries but generations of Western painters who followed. Over his long life his style shifted dramatically: the vivid, luminous tints of his early work gave way to loose brushwork…
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[I wish]to engrave and distribute [the prints] for the benefit and knowledge and use of painters and sculptors and other knowledge-able persons.
..I also send the picture of the [[w: La Gloria (Titian)|'Trinity' [also called La Gloria] ]].. ..in my wish to satisfy your C. M.
His Majesty [[w: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|[emperor Charles V] ]], [in his court in Augsburg] sent for me.
Most serene and Powerful King [Ferdinand], most Clement Lord,..
[I] purposely avoided the styles of Raphael and Michaelangelo because I was ambitious of higher distinction than that of a clever imitator.
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