Titian

thcgreat painter, was born in 1477, and studied under Giovanni Bellini at Venice, whose unfinished pictures he completed. His "A umption of the virgin,” painted at Venice in 1516, is said to be one of the finest pictures in the world. “The death of St. Peter,” which was little, if at all, inferior to it, was unfortunately burnt in 1867. He died of the plague at the age of 99, having painted up to the last. For general mastery of his art he has never been surpa ed.