One of the most successful artists of the Italian

Renaissance, Titian was the master of the sixteenth-century Venetian school andadmired by his royal patrons and fellow artists alike. Several of hiscontemporaries, including the authors and art theorists Giorgio Vasari, FrancescoPriscianese, Pietro Aretino, and Ludovico Dolce, wrote accounts of Titian’slife and work.

In this episode, Getty assistant curator of paintings Laura

Llewellyn discusses what these “lives” teach us about Titian and the artisticdebates and rivalries of his time. All of these biographies are gatheredtogether in Lives of Titian, recentlypublished by the Getty as part of our Lives of the Artists series.