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...DRAW OF PARIS THIS spring is the show titled "The Century of Titian," which fills the Grand Palais until June 14. It is not about Venice as a city; it contains nothing topographical, nothing designed to evoke the scenography of the past -- no furniture, pseudo decor, multimedia "educational" clutter. Painting reigns supreme, on austere walls. All in all, this is the most comprehensive exhibition that has been devoted to the work and influence of a single Renaissance painter in living memory -- a feast for the eyes and a landmark in modern museum history...
...problem in seeing Titian whole has always been the popularity he enjoyed in his lifetime. His work was commissioned by kings, princes and potentates from London to Mantua, from Vienna to Madrid. Thus dispersed, the works were hard to reassemble. Yet Laclotte and his team have brought together no fewer than 55 major paintings by Titian himself, along with about 200 drawings and prints. For comparison, there are a further 200 or so works by the Venetian artists who shaped him -- Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini -- and by those who were inspired by him. The latter group, ranging from Veronese, Tintoretto...
...will ever again have the chance to walk into a room and see 18 Giorgiones all in a row -- well, maybe 15, if you want to quarrel about attributions -- or to contemplate, in the same place at the same time, so many of the sublime works of Titian's old age, from The Flaying of Marsyas to the Ancona Crucifixion. The drawings and prints alone, which show the mutual development of Titian and Giorgione in intimate detail, reveal the use made of their designs by engravers like Domenico Campagnola and demonstrate Titian's own astonishing power and inventiveness...
Since his talent was the motor that drove the Venetian High Renaissance, the show's title, "The Century of Titian," is not empty hype. Few artists have ever dominated a period, and a cultural frame, the way Titian did. His public career as an artist began with the new century, around 1505; it lasted until 1576, when he was carried off by the plague, still painting, at the age of about...
...irresistibly puts you in mind of an Annunciation, with angel (though wingless) and Madonna. In particular Matisse inherited the pastoral mode, replete with allegory. He refers to the poetry of his time -- Baudelaire, Mallarme -- with the same sense of possession and community that Renaissance painters like Lotto, Giorgione or Titian did to Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures in Venetian Renaissance pastorals tend to be generic rather than specific -- "a nymph" rather than Egeria or Daphne, "a warrior" rather than Alexander -- so are Matisse's scenes of Hesiodic primitive life. We will never know what mythological event the standing nude...