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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Italian painter who introduced vigorous colors and the compositional use of backgrounds to the Venetian school. His works include the altarpiece The Assumption of the Virgin (1518).
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- proper noun A sixteenth century
Italian painter , Tiziano Vecelli.
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- noun old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576)
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Examples
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Tiziano Vecellio's Portrait of Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua 1534 - 1536 is a technical tour de force that exhibits what this great master, who was known as Titian, can do to paint objects that have totally unrelated surfaces and qualities.
Terence Clarke: Masters of Venice, at The de Young Museum, San Francisco Terence Clarke 2011
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It is a pity he doesn't give more examples, but the poison in Titian – his god – is a sense of mortality; precisely what people see in Freud himself.
Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, by Martin Gayford Laura Cumming 2010
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Tiziano Vecellio's Portrait of Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua 1534 - 1536 is a technical tour de force that exhibits what this great master, who was known as Titian, can do to paint objects that have totally unrelated surfaces and qualities.
Terence Clarke: Masters of Venice, at The de Young Museum, San Francisco Terence Clarke 2011
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a little easel on the desk, and it was, strange enough, with a sense of actual relief, Maude read the word Titian on the frame.
Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839
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The recovery of the Titian was a seven-year project that culminated in the handover of the painting, wrapped in a plastic bag, at a London bus stop last August.
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But what was all this rapture about a snuffy brown picture called Titian, this delight in three flabby nymphs by Rubens, and so forth?
The Newcomes 2006
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Here too is a judgment of Paris, by Titian, which is reckoned a very valuable piece.
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"It seemed to me that your reception in front of the Titian was a put - up show, " I explained.
Best Detective Stories Hare, Cyril, 1900-1958 1959
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Her features are as regular and delicate as those of a Grecian statue, and her hair of a rich old mahogany color that I suppose an artist would call Titian red.
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Titian, which is dark and grimy, is quite pleasing, the infant Christ, who stands between S. Andrew and S. Catherine on a little pedestal, being very real and Venetian.
A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903
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