I have chosen to write about a man, who many consider the greatest 16th century Venetian painter. Tiziano Vecellio, better know as Titian, was born in Pieve di Cadore which is located north of Venice Italy. The year of his birth is uncertain. Titian, by his own account was born in 1477. But most scholars place his birth sometime around 1487. Throughout his long and wonderful career, Titian was responsible for innovations in the handling of color (which was a preoccupation of the Venetian School). Titian was responsible for countless beautiful paintings that still endure today. His work is found in museums and private collections around the world. His work is also on display at the Vatican. .
At an early age, approximately ten years old, Titian and one of his brothers were sent to Venice to study with the mosaicist Sebastian Zuccato. His talents soon surfaced and after four or five years Titian left Zuccato to join one of the most prominent painters of Venice. Titian started studying with Giovanni Bellini. While studying with Bellini, Titian became friends with several other student of Bellini. Most notably was Giorgio da Castelfranco, nicknamed Giorgione. Titian and Giorgione quickly became the young masters of this school. Their paintings became "Arte moderna, that is of painting made more flexible, freed from symmetry and the remnants of hieratic conventions". 1 .
After the deaths of Giorgione in 1511 and Bellini in 1515, Titian was left as the unrivalled master in the Venetian School. Starting about this time and for approximately the next fifteen years is what has become know as Titian's period of bloom and maturity. Titian had "freed himself from the traditions of his youth, undertook a class of more complex subjects and for the first time attempted the monumental style". 2 His work during this time had an over powering ability to convey a sense of anguish and impulsive lifestyles. He had a unique ability to place these figures with anguished and impulsive life styles into realistic conceived events.
