Short answers, pulled from the story.
Modern scholars believe Titian was born between 1488 and 1490. He claimed in a letter to Philip II of Spain that he had been born in 1474, but this date remains uncertain.
Ludovico Dolce stated that Titian had four masters including Sebastiano Zuccato, Gentile Bellini, Giovanni Bellini, and Giorgione. Giorgio Vasari wrote that Titian first studied under Giovanni Bellini after being sent to Venice at age nine.
Titian completed the Assumption of the Virgin for the high altar of the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in 1516. It remains his largest single panel and is still located in situ within the church.
Charles V awarded Titian an annual stipend of 100 scudi on the 15th of August 1541 and granted him a second annual pension of 100 scudi on the 10th of July 1548. Philip II later signed a royal deed on the 5th of July 1571 reaffirming a total stipend of 200 scudi annually.
The series included Danaë sent to Philip in 1553, Venus and Adonis delivered in 1554, Diana and Callisto dispatched in 1559, and The Rape of Europa delivered in 1562. The Death of Actaeon remained unfinished and was never completed or delivered.
Titian died on the 27th of August 1576 while the plague raged in Venice. He would have been at least eighty-six years old and no more than ninety given modern scholarly consensus on his birth date between 1488 and 1490.