Titian
Titian (c. 1487-1576). Venetian painter, born Tiziano Vecelli. Titian was influenced by Bellini, whom he succeeded as Venetian court painter in 1516. In 1533 he became a painter to Emperor Charles V, of whom he painted several famous portraits. After Charles’s abdication, Titian produced a number of mythological pictures, including The Death of Actaeon, for Charles’s son, Philip II of Spain. His other works include Venus and Adonis and The Entombment of Christ. His subdued and almost impressionistic late style contrasts with the colourful sensuality of his earlier work.
