Titian Lying in State at the Palazzo Barbarigo
Artist: Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury (French, 1797-1890)
Date: 1862
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium
Titian
Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1477/88/90 was Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.
Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of colour, exerted a profound influence not only on painters of the late Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western artists.
In this depiction, Titian's fame and wealth are emphasized, particularly by the presence of a young servant in the foreground and the background view of his famous altarpiece, the "Assumption of Mary". The scene was likely created to highlight Titian's status and importance as a prominent artist during his time. i
