It is impossible to imagine the history of Italian and world painting without the works of Titian Vecellio, an outstanding representative of the Venetian art school, one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance. The book by the famous translator, expert on Italy and its culture Alexander Makhov, with unprecedented completeness in Russian literature, illuminates the artist’s long life and creative path from his birth in the small town of Pieve di Cadore to his death from the plague as the official painter of the Venetian Republic. Based on numerous sources, the author paints a broad panorama of the life of Titian, his friends and enemies against the backdrop of the turbulent history of Europe at that time.