Titian

Venetian colorist master

The greatest colorist of the Renaissance and the painter who made Venice rival Florence. His long career — he painted into his late eighties — moved from luminous early works to the dark, rough-textured late paintings that anticipate Rembrandt.

Key works

• Assumption of the Virgin1518— Monumental Venetian altarpiece
  Basilica dei Frari, Venice
• Venus of Urbino1538— Recumbent Venus — the archetype
  Uffizi, Florence

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