At the dawn of the sixteenth century, the republic of Venice reigned as one of the most powerful city-states of Europe. The pre-eminent artist during this period was Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian. Titian's older and younger contemporaries included painters of the stature of Bellini, Giorgione, Bassano, Tintoretto and Veronese. This book examines twenty of the most important paintings by these artists included. Titian and his World also traces the development of Venetian painting from 1460 to 1615 and provides the background to the opulence and sensuousness of Venetian painting. AUTHOR: Peter Humfrey is Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews and a widely recognised authority on Venetian Renaissance art. SELLING POINTS: An introduction to some of the greatest artists of the Venetian Renaissance Extravagant colour reproductions of the major late Renaissance paintings 30 colour illustrations.