Titian arrived in Venice around the age of ten and trained under Sebastiano Zuccato, then Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione, before establishing an independent style that fused Bellini’s color with Giorgione’s atmosphere. He became the leading painter of the Venetian school, working for popes, kings and emperors, with a clientele more international than any painter before him.
In 1525 he married Cecilia, his housekeeper and the mother of his eldest son Pomponio, formalising a relationship that had already produced a child; she died giving birth to their daughter Lavinia a few years later. Titian went on painting into his eighties, developing an increasingly loose, almost impressionistic late style, and died in Venice in 1576.
Titian paintings on display, museum by museum
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Giacomo Doria — Gallery 43 (1530 - 1535)
- The Triumph of Love — Gallery 43 (1543 - 1546)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
- Ritratto del conte Antonio di Porcia e Brugnera — XIX (1535 - 1540)
- San Girolamo penitente — IX (1556 - 1561)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Tarquin and Lucretia — Gallery 7 (1571)
- Venus and Cupid with a lute-player — Gallery 7 (1555-1565)
The Louvre
- Allégorie conjugale (Allégorie de la séparation?), dit à tort Allégorie d'Alphonse d'Avalos — Salle 711 (XVIe siècle (1500 - 1600))
- Charles-Quint (1500-1585) empereur du Saint-Empire romain germanique et roi d'Espagne (XVIe siècle (1500 - 1600))
- Diane et Callisto (XVIe siècle (1500 - 1600))
- Ecce Homo — Salle 711 (2e moitié du XVIe siècle (1550 - 1600))
- Jeune femme à sa toilette (XVIe siècle (1500 - 1600))
- Jupiter et Antiope, dit aussi La Vénus du Pardo — Salle 711 (2e quart du XVIe siècle (1525 - 1550))
- L'Adoration des mages (XVIIe siècle (1600 - 1700))
- La Femme au miroir — Salle 711 (2e quart du XVIe siècle (1525 - 1550))
- La Mise au tombeau ou Le Transport du Christ vers le tombeau — Salle 711 (1e quart du XVIe siècle (1500 - 1525))
- La Vierge à l' Enfant avec saint Étienne, saint Jérôme et saint Maurice — Salle 711 (1e quart du XVIe siècle (1500 - 1525))
- La Vierge à l'Enfant avec sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie et un berger, dit La Vierge au lapin — Salle 711 (XVIe siècle (1500 - 1600))
- La Vierge, l'Enfant, sainte Agnès et saint Jean Baptiste (XVIe siècle (Vers 1535) (1535))
- Le Couronnement d'épines — Salle 711 (2e quart du XVIe siècle (1525 - 1550))
- Les Pèlerins d'Emmaüs — Salle 711 (XVIe siècle (1500 - 1600))
- Portrait d'homme (XVIe siècle (1500 - 1600))
- Portrait d'homme, dit L'Homme au gant — Salle 711 (1e quart du XVIe siècle (1500 - 1525))
- Portrait d'homme, main à la ceinture — Salle 711 (1e quart du XVIe siècle (1500 - 1525))
- Saint Jérôme pénitent — Salle 711 (XVIe siècle (1500 - 1600))
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
- Diana and Actaeon — National (On Display) (1556 - 1559)
- Diana and Callisto — National (On Display) (1556 - 1559)
- The Three Ages of Man — National (On Display) (About 1512 - 1514)
- The Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint — National (On Display) (About 1515 - 1520)
- Venus Rising from the Sea ('Venus Anadyomene') — National (On Display) (About 1520)
The National Gallery, London
- An Allegory of Prudence — Room 14 (About 1550)
- Noli me Tangere — Room 14 (About 1514)
- Portrait of Gerolamo (?) Barbarigo — Room 15 (About 1510)
- Portrait of a Lady ( — Room 10 (About 1510-12)
- Portrait of a Young Man — Room 10 (About 1515-20)
- The Aldobrandini Madonna — Room 14 (About 1532)
- The Death of Actaeon — Room 14 (About 1559-75)
- The Holy Family with a Shepherd — Room 14 (About 1510)
- The Rest on the Flight into Egypt — Room 14 (About 1512?)
- The Tribute Money — Room 14 (About 1560-8 (perhaps begun in the 1540s))
- The Vendramin Family — Room 10 (About 1540-45)
- The Virgin suckling the Infant Christ — Room 14 (About 1565-75)
National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Cardinal Pietro Bembo — M-023 (1539/1540)
- Cupid with the Wheel of Time — M-025 (c. 1515/1520)
- Doge Andrea Gritti — M-023 (c. 1546/1550)
- Ranuccio Farnese — M-011 (1541-1542)
- Venus and Adonis — M-023 (c. 1540s/c. 1560-1565)
- Venus with a Mirror — M-011 (c. 1555)
- Vincenzo Cappello — M-023 (c. 1550/1560)
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
- Retrato del dux Francesco Venier — Sala 7 (hacia 1554 - 1556)
- San Jerónimo penitente — Sala 11 (hacia 1575)
The Uffizi Gallery, Florence
- Flora — D22. Tiziano - Venus of Urbino (1517 ca.)
- Portrait of Bishop of Bologna, Ludovico Beccadelli (1501-1572) — D19. Venetian Small Chapel (1552)
- Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino — Room of (1537 ca.)
- Portrait of Francesco Maria della Rovere — Room of (1537 c.)
- Portrait of Pietro Aretino — Venus Room (1545)
- Portrait of a Lady (“La Bella”) — Venus Room (1536-1538)
- The Concert — Venus Room (1510 - 1511)
- The Penitent Magdalene — Apollo Room (1531-1535)
- Venus of Urbino — D22. Tiziano and Venere di Urbino (1538)
Rooms and display status checked against each museum’s own collection database.
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