Titian
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![It took Titian two years (1516–1518) to complete his Assunta, whose dynamic three-tier composition and color scheme established him as the preeminent painter north of Rome.](/Images/godic/202502/16/Tizian_0415535.jpg")
![A Man with a Quilted Sleeve, an early portrait, c. 1509, National Gallery, London.](/Images/godic/202502/16/Titian_-_Portrait_of_a_man_with_a_quilted_sleeve5536.jpg")
![Salome with the Head of John the Baptist c. 1515, (Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome), or Judith; this religious work also functions as an idealized portrait of a beauty, a genre developed by Titian, supposedly often using Venetian courtesans as models.](/Images/godic/202502/16/Vecelli,_Tiziano_-_Judith_-_c._15155536.jpg")
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (pronounced [titˈtsjaːno veˈtʃɛlljo]; c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian /ˈtɪʃən/, was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto, Republic of Venice). During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth.