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Also Known As	Tiziano Vecelli • Tiziano Vecellio
Born	1488 or 1490 • Italy
Died	August 27, 1576 • Venice • Italy
Notable Works	“Alfonso d’Avalos, Marques del Vasto” • “An Allegory of Prudence” • “Assumption of the Virgin” • “Bacchus and Ariadne” • “Christ Before Pilate” • “Christ Crowned with Thorns” • “Danae with Nursemaid” • “Doge Andrea Gritti” • “Emperor Charles V at Mühlberg” • “Entombment” • “Francesco Maria della Rovere Duke of Urbino” • “Gentleman in Blue” • “Jacopo Strada” • “Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence” • “Paul III and His Grandsons Ottavio and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese” • “Perseus and Andromeda” • “Pesaro Madonna” • “Philip II” • “Pope Paul III Without Cap” • “Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple” • “Sacred and Profane Love” • “Self Portrait” • “The Bacchanal of the Andrians” • “The Three Ages of Man” • “The Vendramin Family” • “Trinity” • “Venus and Adonis” • “Venus and Cupid with an Organist” • “Venus and the Lute Player” • “Venus of Urbino” • “Venus with a Mirror”
Movement / Style	Early Renaissance • Renaissance art • Venetian school • Renaissance