Born: c. 1485, Pieve di Cadore

Died: 27 August 1576, Venice

Tiziano Vecellio, known as TITIAN, is  know as the leading painter of the Venetian school. Noted by Umberto Forti.  The classicism of the Veneto did not find its fundamental expressive force in the use of line to create its images, but in the development of tonal painting, creating noble forms of a solemn plasticity to attain, with Titian, an ideal of ample, monumental beauty, yet anchored firmly in earthly reality."

Born in a small village in Italy the Dolomite range of the Alps near Belluno, Titian removed to Venice where he worked first with the mosaicists.

Titian's career escalated rapidly after he received a commission, 1511, to execute three frescoes for the Scuola del Santo in Padua. By 1513 he had begun painting a Battle for the Chamber of the Grand Council in the Doge's Palace in Venice. Upon the death of Giovanni Bellini, 1516, Titian became official painter to the Republic.

Some of Titian's most acclaimed works of the ensuing ten years were the Assumption for the Church of S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (1518) (in which the soaring movement of the Virgin is said to anticipate the later Baroque period), three paintings for Alfonso d'Este in Ferra. Brescia centered on a Resurrection of Christ , and the altarpiece for the Pesaro family side altar in the Church of S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (1519-26).