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Born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno, in about 1490, Tiziano Vecellio (Titian) moved to Venice as a young man, where he trained with Giovanni Bellini and became acquainted with Giorgione's style. His painted "Noli me tangere" and "Slavonian woman" (1510) and some portraits.

In the same period, he painted "Flora" (1515). Later Titian moved closer to the style of Raphael and his harmonious shapes, as can be seen in the famous "Sacred and Profane love" (1515).

Titian then worked as court painter in Ferrara for the Estensi family, in Mantua for the Gonzagas and in Urbino, creating some marvellous pictures on mythological themes ("Bacchanal" at the Prado Museum in Madrid and "Venus of Urbino" at the Uffizi.

At the same time he continued his religious paintings: worth remembering are the "Pesaro altar-piece" (1519-26), the "Averoldi Polyptych" (1520-22), and the "Presentation of Mary at the Temple" (1526). Titian painted some splendid portraits, including the "Man with glove" (1523); "The Beauty"; "Francesco Maria delle Rovere and his wife Eleonora" (1536-37)and the "Ill man".

Having moved to Rome, after 1549, Titian painted "Ecce Homo" (1543), the "Portrait of Pietro Aretino" (1545), the "Portrait of Carlo V on horseback", "Carlo V at the battle of Muhlburg" and "Filippo II" (1548).His last works were "The martyrdom of St. Laurence" (1559), the "Deposition in the sepulchre" (1566) and the "Self-portrait" (1567), the "Crown of thorns" (1570) and the magnificent "Pieta" , completed by Jacopo Palma il Giovane in the year of Titian's death (1576).