Titian

Titian (c. 1488/90–1576) was an Italian painter during the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars", Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscapes, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the use of colour, exercised a profound influence not only on painters of the late Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art