Titsian - Makhov Aleksandr Borisovich

The history of Italian and world painting is impossible to imagine without the works of Titian a Vecellio (1477/80-1576) - an outstanding representative of the Venetian art school, one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance. The book of the famous translator, connoisseur of Italy and its culture Alexander Makhov with unprecedented in the national literature completeness illuminates the long life and creative path of the artist from his birth in the small town of Pieve di Cadore to death from the plague in office official painter of the Venetian Republic. Based on many sources, the author draws a wide panorama of the life of Titian, his friends and enemies against the background of the turbulent history of Europe at that time.