Titian [Tiziano Vecellio]. Italian painter, c. 1488—1576.
Also known by his Italian name, Tiziano or Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio, Titian was an especially prolific painter over a long career in the Italian Renaissance. He worked in many media, including oil on canvas, fresco, engraving and the like. His representations of historical subjects — especially Venetian society and history — portraits of ecclesiastical leaders and many others, religious subjects, and mythological subjects represent the mainstream of 16th-century art. The collection of “Poesie” paintings especially attests to Titian’s use of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and other classical literature as if those writings were scriptural.
Entries at Oxford Art Online witness his prolific output and far-reaching influence.
Actaeon; Adonis; Antiope, General List; Aphrodite, General List (see also Giorgione, c.1505); Birth, Worship, and Satyrs; Arcadia (see Giorgione, c.1510); Ares and Aphrodite; Ariadne; Artemis (see Bolognese School, c.1600); Atalanta; Bacchanalia; Callisto; Danaë; Daphne (see Giorgione, 1510); Dionysus, and Ariadne; Endymion (see James Russell Lowell, 1888); Eros, General List, Education, Punishment; Europa; Flora, General List; Ganymede (see Damiano Mazza, c.1573); Gods and Goddesses, General List (see Giovanni Bellini, 1514), Loves (see Padovanino, 1648); Ixion; LaocoOn (see Anonymous, 1640s); Leda (see Giorgione, c.1505-10); Marsyas; Myrrha (see Giorgione, 1510); Orpheus, General List (see Venetian School, c.1575), and Eurydice; Paris, and Oenone, Judgment (see Giorgione, 1510); Persephone, General List (see Christoph Schwarz, c.1573); Perseus, and Andromeda; Pomona; Priapus (see Bellini, 1514); Psyche; Satyrs and Fauns, and Nymphs; Shepherds and Shepherdesses (see Luis Cemuda, 1956–62); Sisyphus; Tantalus; Tityus; Zeus, Loves (see Andrea Schiavone, 1563)
