Illustrious Lord, hearing that your Excellency has gone to the court of his Imperial Majesty [Charles V], I abstain from coming to Mantua, sighing at my bad fortune in not having left Bologna soon enough to meet your Grace. At Venice I shall prepare the copy of the portrait of his Majesty, which I take home with me at your Excellency's bidding.
Italian painter (c.1490–1576)
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (c. 1488-90 – 27 August 1576), better known as Titian, was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Cadore territory, near Belluno (Veneto), in Italy, and died in Venice. Many official letters of Titian were written by Aretino, between 1527-1556. From 1556 it was Verdizotti (one of his pupils) who did many secretarial services for Titian.
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Pen Names:
Veccellio, Tiziano
Alternative Names:
Titiano da Cadore
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Ticijan
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Tiçiano
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Tizian
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Tetiano
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Thitsiaen
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Titianus
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Ticiano Vecelio
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Tishan
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Tiziano Vecelli Cavaliere
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Titiano Vecellio
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Tit︠s︡ian
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Titiaan
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Tissien
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Tiziano Veccellio
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Tit︠s︡iano Vechellio
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Tiziano Vecellio da Cadore stato Veneto
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Tiziano Vecellio di Cadore
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Tisiano
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Tiziano Vicelli
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Titien
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Titian Vecelli
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Titiano
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Ticiano
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Tycjan
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Tishian
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Titien de Vecelli de Cador
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Thitsian
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Titain
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Tizziani
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titians
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Ziano
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Titianus Vecelly
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Titien Vecelli De Cador
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Tiziano Vecelli da Cador
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Vecelli da Cadore Titian
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Tittien-Vecelli
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Titiano Vccello
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tiziano vezelli
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Titien Wecelli
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Titiano Vecelli
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called Titian Veccellio
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called Titian Tiziano Vecelli
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dit Le Titien Vecelli
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de Cador Titien Vecelli
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Tisciano
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Tietsiaen
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Tetian
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tipziano
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tipciano
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Tisiaen
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Tiziano veccelio
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Tisien
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Titiano Vicelli
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tiçiano
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Le Titien
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ou le Titien Titianus Vecellio
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Titsiaen
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tticiano
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Vecelli
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Titien Vecelli da Cador
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Vicelli
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Titiano Vercelli
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Ditiano
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Ttalion
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Titian Vecelli da Cadore
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Tizziano
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Tititian
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Titien de Vecelli
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Titiano d'Uxellio Dacadore
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Titiaen Uccello
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ttiçiano
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tizian v.
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Detiano
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Veccelli Titian genoemd Titiaan
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Titiano Veccelly
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Tiziano Vecellio Genannt Tiziano
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Tiziano Vecelli da Cadore
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Ticciani
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Ticciano
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Tissian
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Vecelli da Cadore, Ven. Titian
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Titien Vecelly
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Tuziano
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Tizzani
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Vecelli da Cadore
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Titien Vecelli
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teriano vecellio
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Tician
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Called, Titian Tiziano Vecelli Cavaliere
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tizian vecelli
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dit Le Titien Titianus Vecellio
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de Cador Titien de Vecelli
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dit le Titien Titiano Vecelli da Cadore
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genannt Vecelli Titian
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Tizano
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ttiziano
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tizian vecellio
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Titiani
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Tiziano veccelli
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Tiziani
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Vecelio Ticiano
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Tiziano Vecelli
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Tiziano Vecellio
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Tiziano
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Titiaen
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Vecellio Titian
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I have been expecting the bull of the benefice of Medole which your Excellency gave me for my son Pomponio last year, and seeing that the matter is delayed beyond measure, and what is worse, that I have not received the income of the benefice — I find myself in a state of great discontent. It would be greatly to my dishonour and infamy, if my boy should be forced to change the priest's dress, which he wears with so much pleasure, after all Venice has been made acquainted with the gift made to him of this benefice by your Excellency.
Excellent Lord: —Knowing your Excellency's love for painting and your passion for protecting it as shown in the patronage of Ginlio Eomano; —being further desirous of pleasing your Excellency, —I have taken the opportunity of Messer Pietro Aretino's arrival [in Venice] to paint his likeness, and as he comes — a second St. Paul —to preach the virtues of your Excellency, and I likewise know that you are fond of so faithful a servant because of his many virtues, I make you herewith a present of his portrait. But I also bear in remembrance the Signor Girolamo Adorno who adored the Marquis of Mantua, and as he was a qualified gentleman, I send your Excellency a present of him also. These may not be gifts worthy of so great a person as your Excellency.. ..Most devoted servant, Titiano Vecellio.
Most Illustrious Lord and My Lord, I received the other day, with due reverence your Lordship's letter, together with the canvas and framing. Having read and noted the contents, I considered them so pretty and ingenious as to require no improvement of any kind; and the more I thought over it the more I became convinced that the greatness of art amongst the ancients was due to the assistance they received from great princes content to leave to the painters the credit and renown derived from their own ingenuity in bespeaking pictures. Can I therefore doubt that, if God enables me to satisfy in any part the wishes of Your Lordship, I shall have all credit for my labour? Yet I shall, after all have done no more than give shape to that which received its spirit — the most essential part — from Your Excellency.
Your Excellency, I went without delay to the well of which Y. E. had written, and made a sketch of it, from which Y. E. will see how the matter stands; but I wish that sketch not to go alone, so send another with it of a well after the fashion of this country. Should these drawings appear to have been done in a manner not agreeable to the greatness of your illustrious Signorina, or in accordance with my humble desire to serve Y. E., I hope to be excused; and that Y. E. will ascribe, the cause to an earnest longing that the work should be done rapidly. I am entirely at command should the drawings be considered unsatisfactory, and am ready to furnish others..
I, Titian of Cadore, having studied painting from childhood upwards, and desirous of fame rather than profit, wish to serve the Doge and Signori, rather than his Highness the Pope and other Signori, who in past days, and even now, have urgently asked to employ me: I am therefore anxious, if it should appear feasible, to paint in the Hall of Council, beginning, if it please their sublimity, with the canvas of 'The Battle' on the side towards the Piazza, which is so difficult that no one as yet has had courage to attempt it...