Word: titian
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...Twain on Titian...
...director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Pietà. From Padua, Giotto's Crucifixion, elaborately and tenderly packed, set out for Paris and from Venice, Giorgione...
...Titian's Toilet of Venus...
...nudes out of 37 pictures is no overload for Artist Leon Kroll, 50, who opened two important exhibitions of his work, one at the Carnegie Institute, the other at the Milch Galleries in Manhattan. A persistent prizewinner since 1912, a National Academician, an able landscape painter, few artists since Titian have had a more wholehearted delight in the female figure...
...Titian made no pretense at the universal genius of such men as Michael Angelo or Leonardo da Vinci. He lacked entirely the religious instinct of a Giotto or El Greco. He worshipped fine food, rich brocades and women's 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...