s0251l-TITIAN, Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio and was often called Da Cadore born c.1485-8/27/1576 in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (Veneto), in Most Serene Republic of Venice, Italy, painter

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Was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance, recognized by his contemporaries as "the sun amidst small stars", equally adept with portraits and landscapes of mythological and religious subjects,