Titian

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English

self-portrait of Titian

Etymology

Anglicized form of Italian Tiziano, from Latin Titiānus.

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Titian (plural Titians)

  1. A sixteenth century Italian painter, Tiziano Vecellio.
    • 1926 October 11, C. F. B., “Old and New Pictures in Venice”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic edition, volume XVIII, number 268, Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:
      There are no evidences in these days of Michelangelos and Titians, who at the age of eighty or ninety could turn out stronger work than our people of thirty and forty today! Nowhere else in the world is there any such evidence. But there is a sympathy, a tenderness of understanding in these modern painters which is as typical of this age, as the titanic :power of the Tintorettos and Titians.
  2. A male given name.

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