Titian


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Ti·tian

 (tĭsh′ən) Originally Tiziano Vecellio. 1488?-1576.
Italian painter who introduced vigorous colors and the compositional use of backgrounds to the Venetian school. His works include the altarpiece The Assumption of the Virgin (1518).

Ti′tian·esque′ adj.

ti·tian

 (tĭsh′ən)
n.
A brownish orange.

[After Titian (from his frequent use of the color in his paintings).]

ti′tian adj.
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Titian

(ˈtɪʃən)
n
(Biography) original name Tiziano Vecellio. ?1490–1576, Italian painter of the Venetian school, noted for his religious and mythological works, such as Bacchus and Ariadne (1523), and his portraits
ˌTitianˈesque adj
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Ti•tian

(ˈtɪʃ ən)

n.
1. (Tiziano Vecellio) c1477–1576, Italian painter.
2. (l.c.) a bright golden brown color.
adj.
3. (l.c.) bright golden brown: titian hair.
Ti`tian•esque′, adj.
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Noun1.Titian - old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576)Titian - old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576)
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Translations
Tizian
Tizian
Titien
Tizian

Titian

[ˈtɪʃɪən] NTiciano
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References in classic literature ?
The world says that no worded description of a moving spectacle is a hundredth part as moving as the same spectacle seen with one's own eyes--yet the world is willing to let its son and its daughter and itself look at Titian's beast, but won't stand a description of it in words.
Bottomless vales and boundless floods, And chasms, and caves, and Titian woods, With forms that no man can discover For the dews that drip all over; Mountains toppling evermore Into seas without a shore; Seas that restlessly aspire, Surging, unto skies of fire; Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone waters - lone and dead, - Their still waters - still and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily.
Well, we heard him say--didn't we, Jane?--`Who is that girl on the platform with the splendid Titian hair?
The barber gazed in amazement at this man with the long, thick and black hair and beard, which gave his head the appearance of one of Titian's portraits.
Vanbrugh and Congreve copied nature; but they who copy them draw as unlike the present age as Hogarth would do if he was to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of Titian and of Vandyke.
People, I do assure you, who would have opened their eyes in astonishment, if they had seen Charles the Fifth pick up Titian's brush for him.
He saw a well-painted (no, not even that--he distinctly saw now a mass of defects) repetition of those endless Christs of Titian, Raphael, Rubens, and the same soldiers and Pilate.
His hand, always wonderfully beautiful and strong, was set off by a ruffle of lace, like certain hands by Titian and Vandyck.
Entombment of Titian. It is possible that Strickland hated the normal release of sex because it seemed to him brutal by comparison with the satisfaction of artistic creation.
Knowledge of this kind is like Titian's colouring, difficult to communicate; and as Mrs.
I was condemned to death, and my property was confiscated and made over to my next-of-kin; but I had carried off my diamonds, five of Titian's pictures taken down from their frames and rolled up, and all my gold.
de Mazarin had just uttered a joke, and had ordered his "Flora," by Titian, to be revarnished.