A Conservative Party worker edited the birth and death dates on the Wikipedia entry about Titian minutes after David Cameron sought to embarrass Gordon Brown over the artist's age in the House of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION: ARTIST BIO Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale (HarperCollins) In 1994 there appeared one of the great cultural and intellectual histories of our ...

When David Cameron sat down yesterday after his weekly joust with Gordon Brown at prime minister's questions he must have thought he had landed more than just a glancing blow to his rival's ...

“It illuminates the life and times of the Renaissance master with a level of detail and context typically reserved for the biographies of princes and kings” “A wonderful, often overlooked lecture on ...

In the epic biography Titian: His Life, journalist Sheila Hale illuminates the life of both the Renaissance painter and the history of Venice. Why did you choose to write about Titian? Titian was ...

Titian isn’t the easiest of artists to get to grips with. The richness and complexity of the 16th-century Venetian master’s paintings made them a touchstone of the Western tradition virtually from the ...

This is a long book about a long life, a large volume about a large talent. Titian, its titular subject, was the most celebrated painter of his time. He died in his beloved Venice, Italy, on Aug. 27, ...

He may not have a Ninja Turtle named after him, but Tiziano Vecellio of Venice — Titian, to English speakers — has a claim to being the most enduringly influential painter of the Renaissance, even ...

In 1994 there appeared one of the great cultural and intellectual histories of our time, “The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance.” Because its author, Sir John Hale, had suffered a stroke just ...

"I hate Titian," Hudson remarks about halfway through this study. By this he means Titian the "courtier-painter", the "stately-home artist for people who like their culture safely dead". Hudson is not ...