Calle de Tiziano

The name pays tribute to Tiziano Vecellio, born around 1488 at the foot of the Alps and dead in Venice in 1576. He arrived as a child in the city of canals, passed through the workshop of Giovanni Bellini and ended up above them all: official painter of the Republic and portraitist of popes, kings and emperors. Legend has it that Charles V bent down to pick up a fallen brush for him, an unthinkable gesture toward a craftsman in that century. In Madrid his trace is abundant: the Prado holds one of the world’s largest collections of his work, with the Danaë, the mythological poesie for Philip II and the equestrian portrait of Charles V at Mühlberg. The street was opened in the old Cuatro Caminos slum, where the street names mixed Spanish provinces with great names of painting. It starts at Bravo Murillo and drops in a short stretch toward Dulcinea.