11.13.2019 - By Getty
One of the most successful artists of the Italian
Renaissance, Titian was the master of the sixteenth-century Venetian school and
admired by his royal patrons and fellow artists alike. Several of his
contemporaries, including the authors and art theorists Giorgio Vasari, Francesco
Priscianese, Pietro Aretino, and Ludovico Dolce, wrote accounts of Titian’s
life and work.
In this episode, Getty assistant curator of paintings Laura
Llewellyn discusses what these “lives” teach us about Titian and the artistic
debates and rivalries of his time. All of these biographies are gathered
together in Lives of Titian, recently
published by the Getty as part of our Lives of the Artists series.