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. 1477 – October 6, 1576; died at about 99. Alive at the same time as William Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, and Niccolò Machiavelli. Wiki link