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Titian

1488 - 1576

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Tiziano Vecellio (Italian: [titˈtsjaːno veˈtʃɛlljo]; c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( TISH-ən), was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting, he was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of colour, exerted a profound influence not only on painters of the late Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western artists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Titian is the 24th most popular painter (down from 22nd in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Italy (down from 37th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Painter.

Titian is most famous for his paintings of religious scenes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Titian ranks 24 out of 2,023. Before him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Giotto, and Donatello. After him are Gustav Klimt, El Greco, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Édouard Manet, and Eugène Delacroix.

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Among people born in 1488, Titian ranks 1. After him are Jungjong of Joseon, Ulrich von Hutten, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Germaine of Foix, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Lütfi Pasha, Ferdinand Columbus, Sebastian Münster, Charles II, Duke of Savoy, Joseph Karo, and Otto Brunfels. Among people deceased in 1576, Titian ranks 1. After him are Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, Gerolamo Cardano, Tahmasp I, Aloysius Lilius, Hans Sachs, Frederick III, Elector Palatine, Isabella de' Medici, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, Bartolomé Carranza, and Bálint Bakfark.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Titian ranks 57 out of 5,161. Before him are Juan Carlos I of Spain (1938), Donatello (1386), Tiberius (-42), Horace (-65), Pope Gregory XVI (1765), and Sulla (-138). After him are Maria Montessori (1870), Pontius Pilate (-12), Pope Julius II (1443), Parmenides (-501), Pope Gregory XIII (1502), and Niccolò Paganini (1782).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Titian ranks 7. Before him are Michelangelo (1475), Raphael (1483), Caravaggio (1571), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Giotto (1267), and Donatello (1386). After him are Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Masaccio (1401), Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), and Andrea del Verrocchio (1435).

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