Example sentences for: titian

How can you use “titian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Titian is the most famous for painting golden hair, along with his many Venetian Renaissance followers, and it's also well known that ladies in Renaissance Venice dyed their hair blond.

  • Nearby is the immense brick and white-marble Gothic Church of the Frari (full name Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, built by the Franciscans), above all celebrated for the high altar adorned with Titian’s jubilant Assumption of the Virgin.

  • One of Tintoretto’s best, the Marriage at Cana, is on the wall opposite the entrance, while three of Titian’s most vivid canvases decorate the chancel: Cain and Abel, Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, and David and Goliath, their drama heightened by the perspective di sotto in su (looking up from below).

  • At the same epoch, a Virgin Mary by Titian would be forthrightly dark-haired.

  • The 17th-century Baroque Palaz­zo Rosso (number 18), taking its name from the red façade, displays works by Veronese, Titian, Caravaggio, Dürer, Rubens, and Van Dyck.


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