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Titian

1824, "a painting by Venetian painter Tiziano Vecellio" (c.1490-1576), from Anglicized form of his name. Often also in reference to the tint of bright auburn hair favored by him in his work.

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titian

a. Of a bright auburn colour, tinted with gold. n. A bright auburn colour, tinted with gold.

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Titian

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (; 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian , was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto, Republic of Venice). During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth.

Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante's Paradiso), 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 color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.

During the course of his long life, Titian's artistic manner changed drastically but he retained a lifelong interest in color. Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of tone are without precedent in the history of Western painting.

Titian (disambiguation)

Titian may refer to:

  • Titian, Venetian painter of the Italian Renaissance
  • St. Titian of Brescia, 5th century bishop of Brescia
  • St. Titian of Oderzo, 7th century bishop of Oderzo
  • Titian, a brownish-orange tint or golden color named for the Renaissance painter
  • Titian Ramsay Peale (1799–1885), American artist, naturalist, entomologist, and photographer
Titian (crater)

Titian is an impact crater on the planet Mercury.

In an enhanced color image, viewed from the MESSENGER spacecraft, the smooth floor of Titian is a brighter orange color than the surrounding area, likely due to being filled with volcanic material. Ejecta from Titian appear blue and cover much of the surface surrounding the crater. This material was excavated from depth during the crater’s formation. Later impacts, such as the one that produced the small crater that appears yellow in the upper center of the image, excavated material from below the Titian ejecta. This yellow-appearing material was present at or near the surface before the impact that created Titian and is a different composition (and thus, color) from its surroundings.

Usage examples of "titian".

Gian Bellini had illustrious pupils, including in their number Titian and Giorgione.

Titian studied in Venice under the Bellini, and had Giorgione, who was born in the same year, for his fellow-scholar, at first his friend, later his rival.

In 1512, when Titian was thirty-five years of age, he was commissioned by the Venetians to continue the works in the great council-hall, which the advanced age of Gian Bellini kept him from finishing.

Nothing is known of his youth before he came to Venice and studied in the school of Gian Bellini along with Titian.

Hannah meandered through the crowd, him lending an ear to anyone wanting to bend it, while she sorted blondes, brunettes, the bald and the gray from carrottops, Titians, genetic auburns and unnatural hennas.

Venice, in the splendid temple of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, beside the tombs of doges and condottieri of the fifteenth century there stands that wretched monument upon which the great name of Titian has been traced.

It was half the size of the other, but obviously in the same style, realistic, but in glowing colors, hyperrealistic, very Titian.

Rubens or Titian would have leapt to paint, the kind they call BBW on Usenet, and when it glistens with perspiration .

Among these relics of an age more happy in this respect than that of which we write, the connoisseur would readily have known the pencils of Titian, Paul Veronese, and Tintoretto--the three great names in which the subjects of St.

And the Schenckius,--the folio filled with casus rariores, which had strayed in among the rubbish of the bookstall on the boulevard,--and the noble old Vesalius with its grand frontispiece not unworthy of Titian, and the fine old Ambroise Pare, long waited for even in Paris and long ago, and the colossal Spigelius with his eviscerated beauties, and Dutch Bidloo with its miracles of fine engraving and bad dissection, and Italian Mascagni, the despair of all would-be imitators, and pre-Adamite John de Ketam, and antediluvian Berengarius Carpensis,--but why multiply names, every one of which brings back the accession of a book which was an event almost like the birth of an infant?

Snagsby looking at Mr. Snagsby are in her eyes as achievements of Raphael or Titian.

Maynard Allardeck, I grimly thought, walking Kinley back along the path to the unsaddling enclosure, could find no vestige of an excuse that time to carp or cavil, and I realised that he and Kinley and Nanterre between them had at least stopped me brooding over Botticelli, Giorgione, Titian and Raphael.

The group of red lights gets brighter as the Titian Fleet moves further and further into our area of the Milky Way, and we hope to explain how they can defy certain known astrophysical laws, avoiding entrapment by the huge suns they skirt.

Cupid in the school Valentine's Day pageant, and the sister's school had got out early one day after an asbestos scare and she'd come unexpectedly home and found the Old Man in the basement rumpus room in tiny wings and hideously distended diaper striking a pose from a rather well-known Titian oil in the Met's High Renaissance Wing, and had struggled with denial and own-perceptions-doubting for quite some time thereafter, until a hysterical episode during rehearsals for an Ice Capades Valentine's Day number brought all the feelings surging up and broke the denial, and the Ice Capades' Employee Assistance Office counselling staff helped her start to work it all through.

In it lie the body of Canova and the heart of Titian, under magnificent monuments.