Titian

Titian, Italian in full Tiziano Vecellio or Tiziano Vecelli (born 1488/90, Pieve di Cadore, Republic of Venice [Italy]—died Aug. 27, 1576, Venice), the greatest Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. He was recognized early in his own lifetime as a supremely great painter, and his reputation has in the intervening centuries never suffered a decline. In 1590 the art theorist Giovanni Lomazzo declared him “the sun amidst small stars not only among the Italians but all the painters of the world.”