Retrat de Caterina Cornaro vestida de St. Caterina
Retrat de Caterina Cornaro (1454 – 1510) Esposa del rei Jaume II de Xipre, Vestit de St. Catherine c1542 pel pintor italià Tiziano Vecellio (Ticià 1505 – 1576); que va formar part dels moviments artístics de l'Alt Renaixement i del Manierisme; i va ser considerat com el més versàtil dels pintors italians, demostrant una gran habilitat per pintar retrats, fons de paisatge, temes mitològics i religiosos.
Retrat de Caterina Cornaro vestida de St. Catherine és una reproducció retocada d'antics mestres d'art digital d'una imatge de domini públic.
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Tiziano era fill de Gregorio Vecellio i la seva dona Lucia. El seu pare era un conseller distingit, soldat, i el superintendent del castell de Pieve di Cadore; també gestionava les mines locals de la regió per als seus propietaris.
Va néixer a Pieve di Cadore, prop de Belluno, que era en aquell moment, la República de Venècia; i durant la seva vida es deia da Cadore, which is taken from his native region; Cadore.
The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he claimed in a letter to Philip II, King of Spain when he was an old man to have been born in 1474; even though many scholars debate this, based on writings of contemporaries his own age; putting his birth as early as 1473 to as late as 1490.
Many of Tiziano’s family members including his grandfather, were notaries and the family was well established in Cadore, que era governada per Venècia; and at about the age of 10 o bé 12 Tiziano and his brother were sent to one of his uncles in Venice to find an apprenticeship with a painter.
This was accomplished with the help of Sebastian Zuccato a minor painter in Venice, whose sons became well-known mosaicists (Mosaic Artist). Zuccato was able to arrange a position for the brothers to enter the studio of the elderly Gentile Bellini, and later they transferred over to the studio of his brother Giovanni Bellini; who at the time, were the leading artist of the city.
Tiziano Vecelli who is commonly known as Titian was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, and is considered to be the most important member of the 16th century Venetian school; and his brother later became a respected painter in Venice.
Tiziano is recognized by his contemporaries as “The Sun Amidst Small Stars”; a statement that recalls the final line of Dante’s Paradiso; as he was one of the most versatile Italian painters that had no painting limitations.
He was equally capable of painting portraits, paisatges, religious and mythological subjects with elegance and grace with ease; and his painting methods especially in the use of color, had a profound influence on the painters of the late Italian Renaissance as well on the future artist of Western art.
Tiziano Vecelli along with Giorgione are considered to be the founders of the Venetian School of Italian Renaissance painting; and his career was established from the start as he was highly sought after by many patrons from Venice, then by the North Italian Princes and lastly by the Habsburgs and the Papacy.
As Tiziano matured as an artist the artwork created by him also changed; and although it was much different than the artwork he created in his youth; his use of color in his pieces did not.
Much of his later pieces do not show the vivid, luminous tints which were a strong point in his early works; but the loose brushwork and subtlety of tone remained and are considered to be without precedent in the history of Western painting.