449 years ago today, on August 27, 1576 (August 4, 1576 in the lunar calendar), Italian painter Titian passed away. Tiziano Vecellio (1490-1576) was a representative painter of the Venetian School of Painting during the peak of the Italian Renaissance. He was a student of Giovanni Bellini and was influenced by Giovanni. In his youth, under the guidance of humanistic thoughts, he inherited and developed the painting art of the Venetian School, and advanced the use of color, shape and brushwork of oil painting to a new stage. The emotions contained in the painting were full and profound. As Giorgio's assistant helped draw the scenery behind "The Sleeping Venus". His portraits reveal the inner world of the characters. In middle age, the painting style is meticulous, steady and powerful, and the colors are bright; in later years, the writing style is bold and unconstrained, and the color tone is simple and full of change. In terms of oil painting techniques, it had a great influence on the development of later European oil painting. After the deaths of Giorgione and Giovanni Benini, Titian became a loner in the Venetian painting world. He was selected as the official painter of Venice, but the painter was not interested in it, and he tactfully refused the offer. A generous salary. Because in the Republic of Venice, the actual status of a court painter was not much higher than that of a court musician, cook, or even clown. He would rather maintain his independent status in order to seek more freedom to attract customers than submit to a certain powerful person. In the history of art, Titian can be said to be the first painter who was not attached to the ruler. French King Henry the Third personally visited his studio. Roman Emperor Charles V, surrounded by his entourage, came to his studio and found a paintbrush falling on the ground. He bent down to pick it up for him and said to him humorously: "The greatest emperor in the world picked up a paintbrush for the greatest painter." Titian passed away on August 27, 1576. 1. Venus and Atonis Titian Collection from the Prado Museum in Madrid, 1553-1554 2. The oil painting of Venus Titian in Urbino, 1538, the Uffizi Art Museum. 3. The Altarpiece of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Titian Collection from the Frarie Church in Venice 1516-1518 4. Danayi accepted the golden rain Titian Collection from the Prado Museum in Madrid, 5. The dressed Venus Titian is now in the Louvre in Paris