Titian

Masterpieces in Colour #1

by Samuel L. Bensusan, T. Leman Hare (editor)

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28 pages, Paperback

First published October 21, 1910

About the author

Samuel Levy Bensusan (29 September 1872 – 11 December 1958) was a British author, musician, traveller, playwright, recorder of declining Essex dialects, and expert on country matters. He was born in Dulwich and died aged 86 at Hastings. He was the son of a Jewish feather merchant, Jacob Samuel Levy Bensusan (1846–1917).

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Opening lines:

TITIAN VECELLI , undeniably the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance, leaps into the full light of the movement. To be sure he appears full-grown, as Venus is said to have done when she appeared above the foam in the waters of Cythera, or Pallas Athene when she  sprang from the brain of Zeus, but happily he was destined to live to a great age.

 

 

 

PLATE I.—THE DUCHESS OF URBINO.

Frontispiece(In the Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

This portrait of the Duchess of Urbino from the Uffizi must not be confused with the portrait of the Duchess in the Pitti Palace. The sitter here is Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, and the portrait was painted somewhere between the years 1536 and 1538 at a period when the master's art had ripened almost to the point of its highest achievement.