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“Titian gave Venice its colour — a hot, saturated red lifted out of dusk, set against ochre flesh and a sky bruising toward violet.”
Titian
Painter · Renaissance · 1488–1576
Venetian master whose late portraits and mythologies layered crimson, ochre, and a famously deep red over warm grounds.
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“Titian gave Venice its colour — a hot, saturated red lifted out of dusk, set against ochre flesh and a sky bruising toward violet.”
Venetian master whose late portraits and mythologies layered crimson, ochre, and a famously deep red over warm grounds.