The talent of Titian the Portraitist

Gerard Dupuy went to the Musee du Luxembourg, in Paris, where works by the Venetian painter Titian are being exposed until January 21st. Tiziano Vecellio, born in 1490 in Frioul, deceased in 1576 in Venice, painted the portrait of anybody who was anybody in the Europe of his time, just about. He was the first painter in history to owe fortune and honour to his dexterity as a portraitist. The great figures of the Renaissance fought over his services, starting with Charles Quint who made a palatine count of him. Titian was a prototype of the international artist at a time when globalization was burgeoning. If this part of his work, which can be classified as that of a mundane painter, continues to fascinate after such a long time, it is because the humanist in Titien never gave way to the courtier. The Luxembourg galleries present a sample of this enormous production."

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