Titian was born in 1490 in Pieve di Cadore. An Italian painter of the Venetian school, Titian was the leading artist of the sixteenth-century Venetian Renaissance and one of the most versatile painters of his time. He worked for popes, for the emperor Charles V and for Philip II of Spain, producing portraits, religious scenes and mythological paintings such as Bacchus and Ariadne and the Venus of Urbino. Famed for his rich color and loose, expressive brushwork, which became freer in his later years, he influenced Rubens, Velazquez and Rembrandt. He died in Venice, probably of plague, while still working.
Before and after
- from 1487 to 1491French–Breton War
- c. 1490sThe Last Supper
- from 1490 to 1598Siberian Khanate
- 1490Release of Vitruvian Man
- 1490Birth of Titian
- 1490Birth of Mimar Sinan
- 28 June 1491Birth of Henry VIII of England
- 1 November 1491Birth of Ignatius of Loyola
- 31 December 1491Birth of Jacques Cartier
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- from 1000 to 1200Rise of Romanesque art
- c. 1010sMurasaki Shikibu writes The Tale of Genji
- July 1054East-West Schism
- from 1140 to 1530Gothic art
- 1400Rise of Renaissance music
The era
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