Titian [Tiziano Vecellio].

An Italian landscape painter, celebrated for the fine effects of his clouds. (1477–1576.)

“Not Titian’s pencil eʹer could so array,

So fleece with clouds the pure ethereal space.”

Thomson: Castle of Indolence, canto i.

The French Titian. Jacques Blanchard, and, the painter (1600–1638).

The Titian of Portugal. Alonzo Sanchez Coello (1515–1590).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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