Editing Titian (section)

==Printmaking==
[[File:Titian - Drowning of the Pharaoh's Host in the Red Sea - WGA22989.jpg|thumb|''Drowning of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea'', 1515–17, woodcut, 221.5 cm wide]]
Titian never attempted [[engraving]], but he was very conscious of the importance of [[printmaking]] as a means to expand his reputation. In the period 1515–1520 he designed a number of [[woodcut]]s, including an enormous and impressive one of ''The Drowning of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea'', in twelve blocks, intended as wall decoration as a substitute for paintings;<ref>Schmidt, Suzanne Karr. [https://artinprint.org/article/printed-bodies-and-the-materiality-of-early-modern-prints/ "Printed Bodies and the Materiality of Early Modern Prints,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024223903/https://artinprint.org/article/printed-bodies-and-the-materiality-of-early-modern-prints/ |date=24 October 2020 }} ''Art in Print'' Vol. 1 No. 1 (May–June 2011), p. 26.</ref> and collaborated with [[Domenico Campagnola]] and others, who produced additional [[old master print|prints]] based on his paintings and drawings. Much later he provided drawings based on his paintings to [[Cornelis Cort]] from the Netherlands who engraved them. [[Martino Rota]] followed Cort from about 1558 to 1568.<ref>Landau, 304–305, and in catalogue entries following. Much more detailed consideration is given at various points in: David Landau & Peter Parshall, ''The Renaissance Print'', Yale, 1996, {{ISBN|0-300-06883-2}}</ref>