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Titian vs Raphael

Two painters, their most-loved works next to each other. Facts from museum records and Wikipedia.

Titian

Italian painter (c. 1477/88/90–1576)

Venus of Urbino by Titian
Works here
8
Dated
1514–1557
Main era
High Renaissance & Mannerism
Where to see
Uffizi Gallery, Galleria Borghese, Museo del Prado, National Gallery

Tiziano Vecellio, Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting, he was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.

Raphael

Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)

Sistine Madonna by Raphael
Works here
18
Dated
1500–1519
Main era
High Renaissance & Mannerism
Where to see
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Galleria Palatina, Uffizi Gallery

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

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