Self-portrait of the artist Tiziano Vecellio. The size of the self-portrait is 86 x 69 cm, canvas, oil. He was born in a well-to-do and well-born family in the provincial town of Pieve di Cadore in the Belluno region of the Venetian Republic. The exact date of birth is unknown. Many researchers of the work of the great artist’s birth date determine quite ambiguously, from 1476 to the 1490s.
The most acceptable variant of the year of birth is the period from 1488 to 1490. About 1500 Titian was given by his father to the workshop of the Venetian mosaicist Sebastiano Dzukkato. Then he studied painting in the workshop of the then head of the Venetian school Giovanni Bellini and his brother Gentile Bellini. In 1507, Titian entered as an assistant in the studio of Giorgione, after the death of a great painter, he completed some of his paintings.
In the years 1517-1555 Titian served as an official painter of the Venetian Republic. Enjoyed a huge lifetime fame, his customers were the Emperor Charles V, the Spanish King Philip II, Pope Paul III, the rulers of Mantua, Ferrari, Urbino. Charles V granted him the title of Count Palatine. The artist was closely associated with the Venetian intellectual elite, his many years of close friendship connected him with the writer, publicist, art critic Pietro Aretino and Venice’s leading architect Jacopo Sansovino.
Titian was the head of the Venetian school of painting of the period of the High and the Later Renaissance. Early works of the artist inherent in the cheerfulness of color, the multifaceted perception of life. Tranquil clarity, pathos and dynamics of monumental compositions are replaced by psychological sharpness of images, intense drama, their ruthless truthfulness.
Titian created images full of a heightened sense of the beauty of life, of quivering sensuality. In the late tragic works stressed the dignity and strength of the spirit of the heroes.
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