Titian

Titian's paintings use color, light, and varied brushwork in Venetian portraits, sacred narratives, and classical subjects. The Assumption of the Virgin, made for Venice's Frari high altar, arranges figures between earth and heaven. Bacchus and Ariadne belonged to a group of mythological pictures for Alfonso d'Este of Ferrara. Later, Titian called his mythological series for Philip II of Spain poesie, or painted poems, while a freer handling of paint marked his later work.