Titian in his artist quotes on painting and portrait - free resource, Italian art history

Titian in his quotes - the artist on painting and portrait art, mainly taken from his letters from Venice - free resource for pupils, students and teachers in Italian art history

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Titian (1488 - 1576), was a leading painter artist of the 16th-century Venetian School in the Italian Renaissance.

He was one of the most versatile of the Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods became famous, particularly in the application and use of colours by later artists. During the course of his long life, Titian’s artistic manner changed drastically, but he retained a lifelong interest in colour. His artist quotes are an essential part of art history for students, pupils and teachers, I believe -0 especially to understand 17th century Italian painting art.
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selected artist-quotes of the Italian artist Titian - just to give a short impression of his more extended quotes in the PDF, you can download for free:

• ’My Lord, I received the other day, with due reverence your Lordship’s letter, together with the canvas and framing. Having read and noted the contents, I considered them so pretty and ingenious as to require no improvement of any kind (by a second painter, to correct the picture). - quote of Titian, from his letter to Duke Alfonso of Ferrara - from Venice, Italy 1518

• ’Your Ceasarean Majesty, I consigned to senõr Don Diego di Mendoza, the two portraits of the most serene Empress (Queen Isabella), in which I have used all the diligence of which I was capable.’ - Titian’s quote, in his letter to Emperor Charles V. -from Venice, Italy, Oct, 1544

• ’(I) purposely avoided the styles of Raphael and Michaelangelo because I was ambitious of higher distinction than that of a clever imitator.’ - in Titian’s letter to Francesco Vargas, the Spanish envoy, c. 1545
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  links for other selected free art-resources on Titian:

  • extended biography notes of Titian, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titian
  • artist-quotes of and about Titian, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Titian
  • images of Titian’s painting art, on Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Titian
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]