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...Profane Love, the Naples portrait of Pope Paul III and his two grandsons (surely the most piercing political image in Western art, until Goya's portrait of the family of Charles IV). And then there are the masterpieces that remain in Venice, such as the Pesaro Madonna in the Frari...
Their selection seems to have been shaped, as far as possible, by the desire to get away from the too familiar masterpieces. In this case, familiarity ought to mean immovability, since one would not want to imagine the Scuola di San Rocco lending its Tintorettos to England, or the Frari, in a fit of lunatic generosity, contributing its Titian Annunciation...
...bodies, alternated between harlots, duchesses and his daughter Lavinia for his models. Still painting at the age of 90. his trembling hands and failing eyes produced the technique that led to French Impressionism. The bargaining instinct never left him. Wanting to be buried in the swank Church of the Frari, he offered to swap the monks a new Pieta for a fine funeral. Death caught him before the picture was finished, but the monks burned extra candles for their part of the bargain...
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