Tiziano Vecellio: Titian

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Tiziano Vecellio commonly known as Titian was born in Pieve di Cadore, Italy between 1488 and 1490. The early years of his life are rather blurred, and it has not yet been confirmed his exact date of birth. He began his artistic career in the Venetian School.
At the end of his life, It was reported that he died of the plague on 1576, in Venice.
In Titian’s early stages, when he studied at the Venetian painting school, he was pupil of Giovanni Bellini and worked along Giorgione, two well-known Renaissance painters. They were the main influence on the technique he developed and the themes he used to work on.
One of his first important works when his career started was at Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Fari in Venice, where he painted “The Assumptionof