Titian: His Life and the Golden Age of VeniceThe first biography of Venices greatest artist since 1877 a towering work which captures the genius of Titian and the extraordinary times in which he lived the apogee of Venices power and influence. Born in the mountains above Venice in the late fifteenth century, Tiziano Vecellio or Titian was the greatest painter of the Italian High Renaissance, an artist whose poetic vision and mastery of oil pigments made him into an international celebrity and