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...brushwork and lend his gilt-framed work a subdued and textured frisson. Titian dominates this first room of the exhibition, and his remarkable portrait of Pope Paul III introduces the psychological depths that set off these Venetians from their southern predecessors. The pope sits in a sea of faded velvet??€”his mantle and his chair—a fading man himself, not proud, with slightly bowed shoulders. His hands have a vitality and firmness that is balanced against his reticent, or perhaps suspicious, visage; the portrait recognized the inner life of its subject, which was something almost entirely...
...trap of celebrating The King as little more than a lurid joke, a historical throwback or a great excuse for an outrageous costume party. If there is one thing this caricature of a man—a man lost in his own world of sex, drugs and blue velvet??€”seems to have lost, it is his relevance to contemporary music and pop culture. But this couldn’t be further from the truth, whether those influenced by Elvis recognize...
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