Titian

[ tish-uhn ]

noun

1. Tiziano Vecellio, c1477–1576, Italian painter.
2. (lowercase) a reddish-brown or golden-brown color:

   hair of titian.

adjective

1. (lowercase) having titian color:

   titian hair.

Titian

/ ˈtɪʃən /

noun

1. Titian?14901576MItalianARTS AND CRAFTS: painter original name Tiziano Vecellio. ?1490–1576, Italian painter of the Venetian school, noted for his religious and mythological works, such as Bacchus and Ariadne (1523), and his portraits

Titian

1. A sixteenth-century Italian painter known for his portraits and for his innovative use of color.

Derived Forms

• ˌTitianˈesque, adjective

Other Words From

• Titian·esque adjective

Example Sentences

For Sadeler had already created a hugely successful series of twelve emperors, mostly copied from Titian’s paintings in the Camerino dei Cesari, But he did not stop there.

From Time

She owned original artworks by Rembrandt, Velazquez and Titian.

From The Daily Beast

Hall suggests that Titian possibly used self-portraits to manipulate how old the public thought he was.

From The Daily Beast

The Daily Pic: At the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Titian asks 'What's the rush?'

From The Daily Beast

The Daily Pic hits 100K fans, and they get a gift of this Titian miracle.

From The Daily Beast

The Daily Pic: In 1510, Titian was already seeing hell as a factory.

From The Daily Beast

After that the Titian Foreign Office took a hand, and the poor girl's troubles began.

From Project Gutenberg

It is in the work of his fellow-pupil and Titian that the great Venetian treasure of the Uffizi lies.

From Project Gutenberg

I say nothing of Titian here: preferring to speak of him in dealing with his more various and numerous work in the Pitti Palace.

From Project Gutenberg

In another portrait of about the same time, the Young Englishman , we have Titian at his best.

From Project Gutenberg

Vandyke, Reynolds, Titian—he deemed these the great triumvirate of portraiture.

From Project Gutenberg

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