Titian

=**Titian**=

== [] = = =Titian, known both as the father of modern painting and the greatest painter of the Venetian school, was the apprentice of Giovanni Bellini, the first Italian master of the new oil painting technique and the first to integrate figure and landscape. Being his apprentice, Titian was able to carry over these techniques and add his own artistic preferences. Upon Bellini's death, Titian's works were so well known and appreciated that he was appointed the official painter of the Republic. Working under this profession, Titian created some of his finest works of the mythological, religious and portrait nature, all clearly displaying rich colors and realistic movement. Titian's work became so well known that he was commissioned by powerful figures such as emperors and popes to create art for their personal enjoyment, art for the churches and to paint portraits of them. Although Titian's style started to stray from the traditional HIgh Renaissance techniques, he was a forerunner for art in the Baroque time period.= Katie Afflebach

**__Titian Painting Style__**
====**Throughout the Renaissance, revolutionary artists were all but the norm. With advances in science and a new open minded attitude, artists were finding new ways to paint, sculpt, and create. In my opinion however, no artist stood out more so than Titian. Titian is responsible for transforming virtually all forms of painting, including portrait, nude, altarpiece, landscape, and the portrayal of mythological scenes. Over his 90 year life, he created a great body of work that ranged from dramatic mythological work to intensely human portraits. His unique style is visible across all of these forms of painting.**==== ====**Titian was one of the first artists ever to abandon wood panels and move towards oil on canvas. He established oil on canvas to be his medium and his main expressive device was to use strong colors on his canvas. He first covered the whole surface with red for “warmth”. Once the canvas was covered, he then painted the background and figures throughout the painting in vivid hues. In order to tone down the explosive color, he used thirty to forty separate layers of glaze across the piece. With this method he was able to portray almost any texture realistically such as polished metal, shiny silk, or warm flesh. The painting included is one of his most famous works titled //The Rape of Europa.// In this piece you can see how effective his texture style was. The reflections off the water are clear and it almost feels that the viewer is seeing this sight of the mountains in real life. As the landscape fades away in the background, a sense of realism is added to the scene. The depictions of angels and the cow are also strikingly clear. The painting can be seen below. Across Titians life, his own style seemed to change as well.**==== ====**As Titian grew older, his eye sight and other senses grew weaker. In his late 80’s his sight had just about failed him and his brushstrokes appeared to be more “loosened”. His stroked became wider and less detailed and was described as “painting more with his fingertips than with a brush.” Although his sight was failing, he had done his part in revolutionizing art. He had a huge impact on the development of Western art and his impact can still be seen today. Without Titian and other revolutionary artists of the Renaissance, art today could be very different than it is.**====
 * -Kyle Davis**

**Influence of Society at the Time :**
====**Titian is known as one of the most distinguished artists of the Renaissance Period. He had a profound impact on society at the time, including a major influence on other artists of the age. Artists like Tintoretto, Veronese, and Bassano looked to his work for inspiration, as they were painting at the same time as him (“Tour: Titian and the Late”). As well as other painters, Titian made an impact on those around him at the time. He was often asked to make altarpieces and frescoes for not only those in Venice, but also people all over Europe, including one of his patrons Philip II of Spain (“Titian”).**====
 * -Chelsea Donohue**

**Influence on Baroque Art:**
===It was Titian's pure artistic style and talent that persisted into the next great generation of art, the Baroque period. By conveying extreme feelings from devotion to violence, Titian's art paved the way for the bold and expressionistic Baroque art. His blurring lines, swirling colors and vibrant brushstrokes in his later works are also characteristic of this next great artistic period. Perhaps most importantly, Titian's use of exaggerated motion and impressive grandeur in his paintings in order to create dramatic effects also became some of the main characteristics of art in the Baroque time period. By passing his ideas on to the next major artistic era, this engrained his work permanently into history and allowed his techniques to move on in future generations all the way to modern Western art today.=== Katie Afflebach

**Famous Works:**
===Bacchanal of the Adrians, Sacred and Profane Love, The Assumption (altarpiece), the Pesaro altarpiece, the altarpiece of St Peter Martyr, the Worship of Venus, the Bacchus and Ariadne, Presentation of the Virgin, Venus of Urbino, Sleeping Venus, Man With a Glove, Danae, Danae and Venus and Adonis, Perseus and Andromeda, The Rape of Europa, Diana and Actaeon, Diana and Calisto, The Death of Actaeon, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, Pieta===

[|Famous Works of Titian] (Video Link)
=Pieta= == =Man with a Glove=

=The Pesaro Altarpiece= == =Perseus and Andromeda=

source: ARTstor
 * Assumption of the Virgin**- altarpiece (1516-1518) - oil on wood

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