Titian or Tiziano Vecellio was born in a small alpine village of Pieve di Cadore, where his family lived for many years. In 1498, at the age of nine or ten, Titian and his older brother Francesco were to Venice to start training as painters in the workshop of the mosaicist Sebastiano Zuccato. Though soon Titian left his workshop and began studying painting in the workshops of Gentile Bellini and Giovanni Bellini. It's said that his earliest surviving work Pope Alexander VI Presenting Jacopo Pesaro to Saint Peter(1502-1512) was influenced by Giovanni Bellini. In 1507, Titian joined the workshop of Giorgione as his assistant and three years which he spent with this amazing master, were a lasting influence on Titian to such a degree, that some works which are now thought to have been painted by Titian used to be attributed to Giorgione, and vice versa. This is the painting called "The Rape of Europe."sorry I couldn't get it any bigger :(
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