Titian or Tiziano Vecellio was born in a small alpine village of Pieve di Cadore, now not far from the Austrian border, where his family lived for many years. His parents, Lucia and Gregorio di Conte dei Vecelli, were respectable people of modest means. In about 1498, at the age of nine or ten, Titian and his elder brother Francesco were sent to Venice to start their training as painters in the workshop of the mosaicist Sebastiano Zuccato. Though soon Titian left his workshop and began studying painting in the workshops of Gentile Bellini and Giovanni Bellini. It is believed, that his earliest surviving work...
1502-1512. Oil on canvas. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium. Read Note.
1505-1510. Oil? on wood. Museo Civico, Padua, Italy. Read Note.
1505-1510. Oil on wood. Museo Civico, Padua, Italy. Read Note.
c.1510. Oil on canvas. Santa Maria della Salure, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c.1510. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
c.1510-1515. Oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
c.1510-1511. Oil on canvas. The Louvre, Paris, France.
1511. Fresco. Scuola del Santo, Padua, Italy. Read Note.
1511. Fresco. Scuola del Santo, Padua, Italy. Read Note.
1511. Fresco. Scuola del Santo, Padua, Italy. Read Note.
c.1512. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
1511-1512. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
c.1512. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery, London, UK.
c.1512-1515. Oil on canvas. Garrowby Hall, Earl of Halifax Collection, London, UK.
1514. Oil on canvas. Museo Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy.
1514. Oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
c.1515. Oil on wood, transferred to canvas. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
c.1515-1520. Oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
. Oil on canvas. The Louvre, Paris, France.
c.1515. Oil on canvas. Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome, Italy. Read Note.
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Titian's Women by Rona Goffen. Yale Univ Pr, 1997.
Titian (Masters of Italian Art Series) by Marion Kaminski. Konemann, 1998.
Titian by Filippo Pedrocco. Rizzoli International Publications, 2001.
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Titian: Essays by Charles Hope, Jennifer Fletcher, Jill Dunkerton. Yale University Press, 2003.
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting by David Alan Brown, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden. Yale University Press, 2006.