Claim: El Escorial is a storehouse of art and includes masterworks by Titian, an Italian Renaissance painter and member of the 16-century Venetian school.
Evidence: Aside from its explicit purposes, the complex is also an enormous storehouse of art. It displays masterworks by Titian, Tintoretto, Benvenuto Cellini, El Greco, Velázquez, Rogier van der Weyden, Paolo Veronese, Alonso Cano, José de Ribera, Claudio Coello and others. Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (pronounced [titˈtsjaːno veˈtʃɛlljo; c. 1488/90 – 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian (/ˈtɪʃən/ TISH-ən), was an Italian painter during the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.