Tiziano Vecellio or Tiziano Vecelli (in Italian), more commonly called Titien or Titien in French, born towards 1490 with Pieve di Cadore, died the August 28th 1576 with Venice, is a Italian painter , author of a considerable pictorial work. He is regarded as one of the largest portraitists of this time, in particular thanks to his skill to emphasize the character traits of the characters.

Biography

He was born with Pieve di Cadore (Venezia) towards 1490, in a rich person local family. His/her father Gregorio Vecellio occupied various loads, of which those of captain of the militia, and inspector of the mines.

One does not know which education it received: he probably did not know Latin, language very important at the time, and the major part of the letters which came from to us were written for its account by other people. Tiziano was initiated with painting at the same time as his/her Francesco brother. Both are sent to Venice, towards the age of 9 or 10 years, to study Article They start in the workshop of Sebastiano Zuccato, a mosaic artist in . After four or five years, Titien enters the workshop of the painter Gentile Bellini, then of his/her brother Giovanni Bellini, at that time the most famous artist of Venice. It is there that it becomes acquainted with Giorgio da Castelfranco, known under the name of Giorgione. They become friendly and associated, and in 1508 work together with the frescos external of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi . Two years later, Giorgione dies of the Peste and it is probable that many tables of Giorgione, unfinished, were finished by Titien.

Titien paints three frescos for the Scuola di Sant' Antonio with Padoue, city where it goes in 1511. In 1516, with died of Giovani Bellini, it is named with its continuation official painter of the République of Venice and establishes a workshop on the Large Channel with San Samuele . Many contemporary artists passed there, of which Tintoret and Greco. In 1520, it carries out an important order for the decoration of the Palais of the Doges, the Battle of Cadore (large fresco which will be destroyed at the time of a fire in 1577) and three paintings of mythological scenes for Alphonse I {{er}} of Este. It is also charged to make all the portraits of the successive doges, until in 1555 where the task falls on Tintoret. It also has many orders for the notable Venetian ones and the churches of the city.

Three years later, during a voyage to Ferrare, it becomes acquainted with Frederic II Gonzague, marquis of Mantoue of which it makes the portrait and for which it works during more than 10 years, decorating the castle with Ferrare of mythological frescos. End 1522, it goes to Mantoue, where it meets the marquis Federico Gonzaga which orders to him close to forty tables, and binds friendship with Arétin.

In 1525, it marries Cecilia Soldano, girl of a barber, who already gave him two wire: Pomponio in 1523 and Orazio, right before the marriage. In 1530 his wife puts at the world a girl (Lavinia) and dies a few months later. It is not known if it remaria, but in any case years 1530 are for Titien those of a new female gun, more finely as in (Florence, Palais Pitti) Bleated It, Marie-madeleine (v. 1533) (Florence, Palais Pitti) or Venus d' Urbin (Florence, Musée of the Galerie of the Offices). Does this last work, carried out for Guidobaldo della Rovere in 1538 take as a starting point the deadened Venus of Giorgione by representing a nude woman (Venus? a courtesan? a young wife?) on a bed in a part and waked up. Emblematic work of its career, it is the prototype of naked female lying in interior for the European painting whose Edouard Manet will be inspired for its Olympia (See the writings of Daniel Arasse for a detailed analysis. In particular “the woman in the trunk” in One sees nothing there. Descriptions , Gallimard, Folio Tests).

In this same year 1530, it meets Charles V at the time of a voyage of the emperor in Italy, via the marquis de Mantoue. Three years later, Charles V grants to him the title of Conte Palatino and Cavaliere dello Sperone d' Oro , an honor without precedent for a painter. He will paint a series of portraits of the close relations of the emperor.

In 1545 it goes to Rome to the invitation of the pope Paul III. The March 16th it obtains the Roman citizenship, and returns to Venice. Direct confrontation with works of Michel-Angel influences enormously its career, which undergoes a “crisis mannerist then”, marked by bolder compositions and a color with the strong effects of contraste.
In 1548 it goes to Augsburg where the Diet is held of the Holy roman Empire, chaired by Charles Quint, occasion for him to paint many portraits the notable ones and of the emperor himself. Then it starts to work with its series of Poésie for the king Philippe II. These paintings represent naked the female mythological ones, such Danaé , Venus and Adonis or Diane and Actéon , and they initiate the last phase of Titien, characterized by a key much less graphic and freer, where the completed fabrics even let see the action of the brush on the fabric; one even says that Titien would have painted with its unquestionable fingers of its tables at the end of its life.

He is elected with Andrea Palladio and Jacopo Tintoretto with the Académie of the drawing of Florence in 1566. Its last known table is a Pietà , which it intended to decorate its tomb: unfinished with its death, work will be finished by Palma it Giovane.

He dies the August 27th 1576, perhaps of the plague, more probably of old age. He is buried in the church Santa Maria dei Frari in Venice.

Seek new tables of Titien

• on July 17th, 2007, English on sale puts at the biddings in the village of Market Harborough (Leicestershire) a male portrait bought one day for a small sum during a liquidation of heritage and which had been for 33 years in its hall. The great surprise is that two brokers from London and disputes the fabric which is finally allocated 200.000 books. The explanation is that this fabric would be of Titien. If it were confirmed authenticates, it would reach a very high dimension, much more than the purchase in this auction-room.

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