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TITIAN.
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enriching its palaces and churches with his magni-
ficent works. These were so numerous that it
would be in vain to attempt to give an account
even of those considered as the finest among them.
Two, however, must be pointed out as pre-eminent
in beauty and celebrity : first, the Assumption of
the Virgin, painted for the church of Santa Maria
de’ Frari, and now in the Academy of the Fine Arts
at Venice, and well known from the magnificent
engraving of Schiavone ; the Virgin is soaring to
heaven amid groups of angels, while the apostles
gaze upwards : and, secondly, the Death of St. Peter
Martyr when attacked by assassins at the entrance
of a wood ; the resignation of the prostrate victim
and the ferocity of the murderer, the attendant
flying “ in the agonies of cowardice,” with the
trees waving their distracted boughs amid the vio-
lence of the tempest, have rendered this picture
famous as a piece of scenic poetry as well as of
dramatic expression.
The next event of Titian’s life was his journey
to Bologna in 1530. In that year the Emperor
Charles V. and Pope Clement VII. met at Bologna,
each surrounded by a brilliant retinue of the most
distinguished soldiers, statesmen, and scholars of
Germany and Italy. Through the influence of his
friend Aretino, Titian was recommended to the
Cardinal Ippolito de’ Medici, the Pope’s nephew,
through whose patronage he was introduced to the
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enriching its palaces and churches with his magni-
ficent works. These were so numerous that it
would be in vain to attempt to give an account
even of those considered as the finest among them.
Two, however, must be pointed out as pre-eminent
in beauty and celebrity : first, the Assumption of
the Virgin, painted for the church of Santa Maria
de’ Frari, and now in the Academy of the Fine Arts
at Venice, and well known from the magnificent
engraving of Schiavone ; the Virgin is soaring to
heaven amid groups of angels, while the apostles
gaze upwards : and, secondly, the Death of St. Peter
Martyr when attacked by assassins at the entrance
of a wood ; the resignation of the prostrate victim
and the ferocity of the murderer, the attendant
flying “ in the agonies of cowardice,” with the
trees waving their distracted boughs amid the vio-
lence of the tempest, have rendered this picture
famous as a piece of scenic poetry as well as of
dramatic expression.
The next event of Titian’s life was his journey
to Bologna in 1530. In that year the Emperor
Charles V. and Pope Clement VII. met at Bologna,
each surrounded by a brilliant retinue of the most
distinguished soldiers, statesmen, and scholars of
Germany and Italy. Through the influence of his
friend Aretino, Titian was recommended to the
Cardinal Ippolito de’ Medici, the Pope’s nephew,
through whose patronage he was introduced to the