{Italian High Renaissance –}{Titian}[28th April 1991]

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‘Titian’s great masterpiece, the “Assumption” (1516-18[ce]); Sta. Maria dei Frari, Venice), established his reputation as Bellini’s successor. In the painting, he exhibits the Venetians’ love of colour and texture, but he succeeds in a balanced and moving composition that can only be compared to Raphael’s “School of Athens” in its grandeur. The environment is both earth and heaven, yet it is created and defined by light and atmosphere in a typically Venetian way, rather than by architecture as would have been more common in Florence. This painting, together with the “Sacred and Profane Love”,* the Ferrara series,** “Entombment” (Louvre), and the “Pesaro Madonna” (1519-26[ce]; Sta. Maria dei Frari, Venice), reveals Titian’s contribution to the High Renaissance.

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***– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:] 348-349

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