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Epigraph

Titian was the sun amid small stars not only among the Italians but all the painters of the world.

GIOVANNI PAOLO LOMAZZO,

IDEA DEL TEMPIO DELLA PITTURA, 1590

A work of art is an act of cooperation, often of reluctant cooperation like an awkward marriage, between the author and the kind of society he lives in. When we know something of the character of this aggravating partner, that which was once stiff and monumental becomes fluid and alive.

V. S. PRITCHETT, IN MY GOOD BOOKS, 1942