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Violence, debauchery, popes, emperors, gods, martyrs, a cardinal's mistress - Titian's work encompassed them all. He had talent to burn and his sensuous paintings were a must-have for the élite of Renaissance Europe. Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) became Venice's official painter in 1516, and was top in Europe until his death in 1576 aged (he claimed) ninetysomething. "Titian," a banquet of his major works harvested from leading European and American galleries, can be savored at London's National Gallery from Feb. 19 through May 18, and - in slightly different form - at the Prado, Madrid, from June...
...Tiziano Vecellio, Titian to us, was one of the most famous, adored and formidable artists who ever lived -- the classic Dead White Male, so to speak. And when he was a Live White Male, which is to say for the best part of a century -- he was born in 1488 or 1490 in Pieve di Cadore, a hill town in northern Italy, and was carried off by the plague in his beloved but insalubrious Venice in 1576, still painting, at the patriarchal age of nearly 90 -- he posed dreadful problems for other artists. The length of his career condemned...
Cinquecento Venice also boasted the man whom every European of taste regarded as the greatest painter in the world, Tiziano Vecellio di Cadore, Titian for short. The culture over which Titian presided for most of his long life-he died, probably of the plague, still painting, in 1576, when he may have been anything from 90 to 95-boasted an unusual number of master artists: Veronese, Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgione, Sebastiano del Piombo, Lorenzo Lotto, Jacopo Bassano, Giovanni Battista Moroni. If one includes the architects and sculptors, such as Jacopo Sansovino and the Lombardo brothers, the decorative artists, the printmakers, then...
...clear the air, Venice last month quietly issued a revised catalogue for the Giorgione show. A Self Portrait, originally called "unquestionably an original," became "probably" one. A Masculine Portrait now became "probably" Titian's; a Pieta, "tenably" the work of Titian's little-known brother, Francesco Vecellio. In Rome, one art authority snorted: "The Giorgione show is a scandal. It's costing everyone connected with it face." A more serious problem facing an art market already overloaded with fake Giorgiones was pointed out by Turin University's Anna Maria Brizio: "Unfortunately, there is in the show...
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