Titian

The ambition that drove him came as much from his ingrained attitudes as it did from the need to find outlets for his talent. Like a peasant whose one concern is to store up grain against the winter, Titan worked for security (Williams 7).

The name Titian is an anglicized version of Tiziano, and Titian and Raphael (for Raffaello) are the only Italians whose names have consistently been anglicized in this manner, a reflection of the lasting nature of their fame (Gould 7).

Throughout his life, Titian produced a lovely sort of landscape in which a decorative arrangement of forms meets a large truthfulness of atmosphere and spatial effect. Titian would have a major influence on the Carracci and Rubens as well as Watteau, Gainsborough, Constable, and Delacroix. While in his thirties, Titian devoted himself to the Giorgionesque idyll and to a highly poetized portraiture. In his forties he practiced a more positive and splendid color while working out new dynamic patterns for great religious pieces. In his seventies, Titian discovered synthetic painting and invented new procedures that were variously to reappear in Rembrandt and Velasquez:

All this bespeaks a well-ordered energy in the man, finest taste, uncommo

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duced works that were characteristically private, dreamlike visions of man immersed in the natural world. He did not leave any record of his thoughts on the matter, but it seems from his works that Giorgione considered painting primarily as a medium of self-expression and only secondarily as a vehicle for storytelling. Titian worked with the master on a number of works while also developing his own distinctive style. Giorgione died in 1510, and Titian altered and completed some unsold works. This is another reason why it is difficult to tell what Giorgione painted and where on these works Giorgione leaves off and Titian begins (Williams 64). The early death of Giorgione helped Titian's career. Titian's fame outside Venice increased from this time forward, and he more often worked after this for outside patrons than for Venetians. Another factor improving Titian's position occurred in 1511 when his chief rival, Sebastiano del Piombo, left Venice to settle in Rome. Five years after this, Giovanni Bellini died. Titian, still in his early thirties, as now the most important artist in Venice. Yet, this came about because of a rare combination of circumstances not directly related to Titian's talent. There were other factors
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Approximate Word count = 1513
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)

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