Nadezhda A. Marchenko

The article deals with the principles of the creative method in the art of Titian Vecellio, the gratest painter of Venetian Renaissance, investigated on the base of analysis of two his paintings, "Crowning with Thorns", created at different stages of his life. To understand it in proper way it is possible to use in this respect the terms of classical rhetoric, which could be useful to deny some processes and principles of his work. Such a method helps to study them in the context of aesthetical polemics of mid-XVIth century on the merits of the two main Italian Renaissance schools of painting, Central Italian and Venetian.

This article investigates the evolution of the depiction of Annunciation in the works by Titian. It studies the evolution of this subject matter which occupied a large span of time in the course of fifty years. It was shown which concerns played a crucial role by the choice of the iconographical scheme in the pictorial treatment of this subject.

The method of the iconographical research as well as the one of the stylistic analyses were chosen as the basic methods of scientific investigation. They helped to find out which works of Italian Renaissance art were instrumental in the process of formation of Titian's ideas as the main sources of inspiration. Besides, the use of these methods contributes to consider the style of the artwork analyzed.

The main findings of this article consist in the fact that the new scientific data were obtained on what kind of artworks of the Renaissance artists influenced the treatment of religious iconography in Titian's paintings and in which way this influence was perceived and transformed by him.