Invention Timeline – Fiziano Titian or Tisiano Vecelli, Greatest Painter of the Venetian School; Painted the “Assumption of the Virgin”
b. ? 1477 and d. August 27, 1576
The greatest painter of the Venetian school. In 1512 he was employed by the Venetian government to paint the hall of the grand council, in which he represented the “Homage of Frederick Barbarossa to the Pope.” In 1516 he painted a celebrated picture of the “Assumption of the Virgin” and in 1528 “The Death of Saint Peter.” As a portrait painter he has never been surpassed and many critics think he was the greatest colorist that ever lived.
The golden light into the painter’s room
Streamed richly, and the hidden colors stole
From the dark pictures radiantly forth,
And, in the soft and dewy atmosphere,
Like forms and landscapes magical they lay.
And as the painter’s mind felt through the dim,
Rapt mystery, and plucked the shadows wild
Forth with its reaching fancy, and with form
And color clad them, his fine, earnest eye
Flashed with a passionate fire, and the quick curl
Of his thin nostril, and his quivering lip,
Were like the winded god’s, breathing from his flight.
—Parrhasius: N. P. Willis
1390 (about)-1440 (about)-John Van Eyck lived. He was the first to use oil for painting, in Flanders. He and his brother Hubert attained great success in oil-painting, having discovered a new vehicle of color composed of siccative oils and resins. He improved linear and aerial perspective and painting upon glass.
