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Venice's great Titian exhibition honored no anniversary. Recently the Italian Government acquired the Pesaro Palace from the Duchess Bevilacqua la Masa to use as a museum of modern art. Because Titian knew both the house and the Pesaro family well, once painted a famous view of the building, the palace was decided upon as the ideal place to have a loan exhibition of Titians. Professor Barbantini who wrote the letters, pulled the wires and did most of the spade work to make the exhibition possible, had another name for his show. He called it a Tribute of Regret...
...great artist ever lived so long as Tiziano Vecelli. Born high in the Alps, 70 miles from Venice, he lived to be 99, died enormously rich and honored, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire, of the plague in 1576. Titian never starved in a garret. Sent to Venice to study painting by his father, apparently a man of some means, Titian formed an early partnership with Giorgione, soon won profitable city contracts from the Council, who liked him for his frank sensuousness, his Oriental love of color and display, his shrewd business sense. Traveling to Ferrara...
...Franco-Prussian war, but nothing happened to him. Very little happened to him all his life. He was a painter's painter, passionately interested in the technique of his craft, with a lusty sensuousness that has caused Collector Barnes to compare him, at great length, to Rubens, Titian, and the 16th Century Venetians. Such a book would have appalled Painter Renoir. He was vitally interested in light, color and human bodies but hated philosophical arguments...
...with genuine ardor that one turns these pages in search of reproductions of his favorites. It will serve no purpose to quarrel with Mr. Wickham over his omissions, which were necessary if the book was not to become fat like the volumes of van Marle. You will find Titian's "Charles V," and you will rejoice if you like that portrait; you will also find Botticelli's "Venus," Raphael's "Julius II," and Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper," but not Leonardo's "Mona Lisa," which is of course so popular a selection that it is both proper and fair...
...Titian's Toilet of Venus came from the Hermitage Museum, too, and cost Mr. Mellon $544,320. Painted about 1565, showing a half-nude, buxom Venetian blonde gazing into a mirror supported by cupids, it is supposed to be a portrait of Artist Titian's daughter Lavinia...