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 … - Titian
" "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.
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About Titian
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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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 an action pending before the Legate [Titian's friend, Giovanni della Casa ] here against the brothers of [the church] San Spirito of whom I hear they mean to tire me out by delays. Their purpose is to obtain a commission or brief, by which my cause shall be transferred to another judge, who is their friend. I beg your Reverend Lordship, in remembrance of my services and in view of the importance of the case to give Monsignor Guiddicioni to understand that he may not pass anything contrary to me, but trust to the goodness and sufficiency of Monsignor the Legate [Titian's friend] so that the brothers shall not have it in their power to ill-use me and create delays contrary to duty and justice; the matter being public at Venice where everyone knows that these brethren are old and certain debtors to me for my works.
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.
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Your Ceasarean Majesty, I consigned to senõr Don Diego di Mendoza, the two portraits of the most serene Empress [ Isabella ] , in which I have used all the diligence of which I was capable. I should have liked to take them to your Majesty in person, but that my age and the length of the journey forbade such a course. I beg your Majesty to send me words of the faults or failings which I may have made, and return the pictures that I may correct them. Your Majesty may not permit anyone else to lay hand on them.. ..Your Majesty’s most humble and constant servant, Titiano.
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