Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, known in English as Titian, was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante's "Paradiso"), Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.
提契诺-维切利(Tiziano Vecelli)，英文名提香(Titian)，是一位意大利画家，16世纪威尼斯画派最重要的成员。提香被同时代的人称为“点点繁星中的太阳”(让人想起但丁《天堂》中著名的最后一句)，他是意大利最多才多艺的画家之一，擅长肖像画、风景背景画以及神话和宗教题材。他的绘画方法，特别是对色彩的运用，不仅对意大利文艺复兴时期的画家，而且对未来的西方艺术产生了深远的影响。
Isabella d’Este (1474–1539) was Marchioness of Mantua and one of the most important art patrons of the Renaissance. Despite her already being 60 years of age when this portrait was created, she is shown as young and beautiful, with elegant dress and hairstyle. In fact, Titian worked from a picture painted 25 years earlier, because Isabella was very sensitive about her appearance and did not like to pose for paintings. Hence, in Titian’s portrait, she is presented in an idealized way—just as she wished to be remembered.
伊莎贝拉-德埃斯特(1474-1539)是曼图亚侯爵的夫人，也是文艺复兴时期最重要的艺术赞助人之一。尽管这幅画创作时她已经60岁，但她在画中的形象依旧年轻美丽，有优雅的衣着和发型。事实上提香是根据25年前的一幅画创作了这幅作品，因为伊莎贝拉对自己的外表非常敏感，且不喜欢为画作摆姿势。因此在提香的肖像画中，她以一种理想化的方式呈现出来——就像她希望被人们记住的那样。
We present today's masterpiece thanks to Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. :)
感谢维也纳艺术史博物馆与我们分享今天的杰作。:)
