The name of this illustrious painter was Tiziano Vecellio or Vecelli, and he is named from the Italians, Tiziano Vecellio da Cadore. He was descended of a noble family; born at the castle of Cadore inside the Friuli in 1477, and died in 1576, based on Ridolfi; though Vasari and Sandrart place his birth in 1480. Lanzi says he died in 1576, aged 99 years. He early showed a real love for the art, that has been carefully cultivated by his parents. -Lanzi says in the note, it is pretty clearly ascertained that he received his first instruction from Antonio Rossi, a painter of Cadore with amazing painting techniques; if so, it had been at a[Pg 2] very tender age, for when he was a decade old he was sent to Trevigi, and placed directly under Sebastiano Zuccati. He subsequently went to Venice, and studied successively under Gentile and Giovanni Bellini. Giorgione was his fellow-student under the last named master, with whom Titian made extraordinary progress, and attained such an exact imitation of his art painting techniques that their works could scarcely be distinguished, which greatly excited the jealousy of Bellini.
About the death of Giorgione, Titian rose rapidly into favor. He was soon afterwards invited to the court of Alphonso, Duke of Ferrara, for whom he painted his celebrated picture of Bacchus and Ariadne, and a couple other fabulous subjects, which still retain somewhat of the style of Giorgione. It was there which he became knowledgeable about Ariosto, whose portrait he painted, as well as in return the poet spread abroad his fame within the Orlando Furioso. In 1523, the Senate of Venice employed him to embellish the Hall of the Council Chamber, where he represented the famous Battle of Cadore, between the Venetians as well as the Imperialists-a grand performance that greatly increased his reputation.
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