Identifier: famouspainterspa00shed (find matches)
Title: Famous painters and paintings
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Shedd, Julia Ann Clark, 1834-1897
Subjects: Painters Painting
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ese Gallery in Rome ; Davidwith the liead of Goliath is in the Imperial Gallery atVienna. His Concert, representing two priests play-ing the piano and the violoncello, is in the Pitti Pal-ace ; a picture of a Warrior with another figure is in theUffizi Gallery at Florence ; the Daughter of Herodiaswith the head of John the Baptist is in the Louvre. AHoly Family with St. Sebastian and St. Catherine, witha highly poetical landscape, is also in the Louvre. Ja-cob Greeting Rachel, a picture of a graceful pastoralcharacter, is in the Dresden Gallery. The School of the Fine Arts at Yale College, NewHaven, possesses two pictures by this master, — a Cir-cumcision of Christ, and the portraits of Andrea Grittiand his sisters, painted about 1500. Andrea Gritti wasDoge of Venice from 1523 to 1538. His pictures are limited in number, as he died in 1511,at about the age of thirty-four. Many of the pictureswhich are ascribed to him in different collections areundoubtedly the work of other artists.
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THE NEW YORK IpubliclibraryI ASTOR. LENOXTILD£N FQUNDATinuB 1477.) TITIAN. 81 TITIAN. TITIAN, or TiziANO Yecellio, tlic great represen-tative of the Venetian scliool of painting, wasborn at Cadore, on the borders of Friuli, about the year1477. When only ten years of age he was placed underthe instruction of the younger Bellini, but the painterwho exercised the greatest influence on his style wasGiorgione, a fellow-student. He received at first alearned education, and he lived in habits of intimacywith the philosophers and poets of his time, and re-ceived honor from princes and nobles. He was marriedin 1512, and his wife, liy whom he had two sons anda daughter, died in 1530. His daughter Lavinia washis favorite model, being very beautiful in face andform. Titian was pre-eminently the painter of nature ; and, anative of the Alps as he was, the mountains, villages,and trees of his own Friuli were often introduced intohis pictures. His robust genius Avas satisfied with imi-tating and for

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