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Who was Titian’s first teacher in Venice?
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Titian
Venus of Urbino by Titian, 1538; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Titian’s first teacher in Venice was Sebastiano Zuccato, a master of mosaics to whom he was apprenticed at the age of nine.12
Shortly after beginning his apprenticeship with Zuccato, Titian moved to the workshop of the Bellini family. It was there that he received his most significant training under Giovanni Bellini, who is considered his true teacher and the most important Venetian painter of that era.123