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Article: The godfather of modern painting; As Titian is celebrated in a major exhibition at the National Gallery, in the first of two parts on the Venetian master, our art critic surveys his lasting influence.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2003
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Byline: BRIAN SEWELL
TIZIANO Vecellio is one of the small group of Italian High Renaissance artists so universally esteemed that their names have been translated into other languages. In France he is known as Titien, Tizian in Germany, Titian in England, here to be pronounced in a wilful English way as Tishn; he occasionally signed his pictures with the bold capitals T and V, and occasionally in the Latin form Titianus, the pronunciation of which must be left to the delicacy of schoolmasters if they are not to reduce their pupils to helpless adolescent giggling.
Born in Cadore, a village in the mountains near Cortina, 80 miles north of Venice on the ...