The last ten or twelve years of Bellini’s life were filled with more commissions than he could handle. Albrecht Dürer, the famous German painter, visited Venice for a second time in 1506. He reported that Bellini was still the best painter in the city, and he also spoke of the hospitality and courtesy of the artist. Bellini died in 1516.
As pupils he had many of the most famous artists of his time. Two of them, in fact, surpassed him later on—Giorgione and Titian. Bellini may be called the true founder of Venetian painting.
PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION
ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 4, No. 4, SERIAL No. 104
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC.
National Gallery, London
ARIOSTO. By Titian
THE NATIONAL GALLERY
Monograph Number Two in The Mentor Reading Course
One day a great emperor was watching an artist paint, when one of the painter’s brushes rolled to the floor. The king stooped and picked up the brush, saying as he did so, “It becomes Caesar to serve Titian.”
It was in such esteem that the Emperor Charles V held the great artist. “There are many princes, but there is only one Titian,” he said.
During the ninety-nine years of the life of Tiziano Vecello, or Titian (Tish-en), as he is k
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