The sun amidst small stars titian biography

Tiziano Vecellio (sometimes Vecelli), better known as Titian was the leading painter of the Venetian School during the Renaissance in the 16th century.

The sun amidst small stars titian biography

During his lifetime he was often known as Da Cadore, a name from his birthplace of Pieve di Cadore.

Recognized by contemporaries as "the sun amidst small stars", recalling the famous final line of the poet Dante's Paradiso, Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters.

He was equally adept with portraits and landscapes, genres which first brought him fame, but also mythological and religious subjects. He trained at a young age with Sebastian Zuccato, then with the Bellini Brothers, Gentile and Giovanni, sons of Jacopo Bellini.

The Bellinis were a renowned family of painters from Venice and exposed Titan to many other prominent artists. This included the famous Giorgione, whose painting, The Sleeping Venus, is of evident influence to Titian’s The Venus of Urbino and Venus and Cupid, both now in the Uffi