New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-19

began years after Titan born and ended years oe
fore Titan was dead The is true of those kings oil
art Raphael and CorreggiO. Bramanti the brst arehF
tect OF ST. Peters and Michael Angelo his successor
were both his contemporaries. His native place
was little mountain town Pierre di Galore some sixty
miles north Of Florence. How why the young lIuan
made choice OF the art painting in which to work out
his career cannot be fairly told. There are
stories Of his doing bOyish work with tne
Juices OF crushed flowers hard 70 be beheN'u
II certain however that he had strong art craving
and that his father took him as boy scarce turheu
twclve-f so Old 20 Venice. Venice was then IN the
zenith OF her commercial power ana ana r1 r,,G
There was no richer state, no ,cy
So full OF luxury. Of az delGnis
were magnificent IN their beauty ana IN the richness on
their decorations H. therefore, the young lah III ~
carly dreams ~ conquest IN domain Of art Thought
first OF color a weapon Of conquest. who can wondF
With Zuccata, "a mosast, and later under Iehtl,
Bcni and then with Giovanni Bellin the yonnE arlsl
yyrougt Titan went couutrvwIrd subsequently,, more
for work than fetes, and made occasional visits ~
m Padna m 1911 doing the ST. Anthony
frcscoes st To- oesecn. Tn 1914 he went 70 terrarl,
due with other good work. the famous Bacchus ana
Auadnc and other equally celebrated pictures Inc lll
irost ahorate. Albert Drer had been lately In Venice
Albert Djrer and Giovanni BclIlnl boDnooned
c1oh admired me other bH IneF puS--to5 7'''"'''N
Titan boy criticisms upon his gl"ry Of color - .,o D.
Titan now forty, living midway between Ine A.
alto and st. Marks, WORKING nara h0laTl upon tIE
grcat cIuvIses O. tie Assumption 81 the virgin Will4
az first gave disappointment Indeed llJhl 3iu ny,
ueut divine faces his best He rs human through
ana through His saints and angels are mag
nHrent creatures but feel that the same blood Is
flowing through them as through he does not MAKE
strong luUta to those qualities uut OBJ Whcu iel-iu7
sentiment evolved. The secret OF his charm lies I'D
Dol. lumaIncSS. 1910.
When or whv or where. Titan married, cannot
surely find. But NJ fortv-hve or thereanoufS
he was living with wife, Cecilia VINO Decdht lIc
mother of that renegade son Pomponio' l1t
whom the father secured ecclesiastical preieInnrh,,
and who went through life dlshouorlnE hr idthtI 5
name and hs priests robe with his deFltrcs. OIa-lu
was au0 her and better who worked with ms fdtHc
and died shortly after him. But Titan was NOT emf
ucutvdomesticlt least not in sense OF the terin
lie owed bc9ufu things outside his own dooTs-some-
times 10 is 90 be feared, TO the neglect OF those W,h
them Titan was Do SENSE literary. DE loFcd goou
t3E bur not Latin Greek He had however, one ul-
er3rv frendshp-Pistro Arctno-d most eXtltOlu.hlIy
man III humOr very great, his c.cverIe>s remark
able his learning most moderate, MS impotence anna
.ug. bis cou-cieucc-uowhcrc. He came 10 Venice
n 1527-came there because was un-'--
Tor HIM 90 stay IN Rome. he was a master
of ali the outside courtesics e, he wrote SAT res
Witty and Genuus that all clever people wanted io
raqd them and ubald and sea hing mat am the VIC
TINS wanted 10 Eid MIN. 10 sheds lund liant upon
tie smaller courts of Italy m that day to mud mat sueh
a man had the intimacy of nearly lll lt- princes.