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EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
neither eye nor hand, nor creative energy of mind,
had failed him yet. He was again invited to Fer-
rara, and painted there the portrait of the old pope
Paul III. He then visited Urbino, where he
painted for the duke the famous Venus which
hangs in the Tribune of the Florence Gallery,
and many other pictures. He again, by order of
Charles V.,-repaired to-Bologna, and painted the
emperor, standing, and by his side a favourite Irish
wolf-dog : this picture was given by Philip IV. to
our Charles I., but after his death was sold into
Spain, and is now at Madrid.
Pope Paul III. invited him to Rome, whither
he repaired in 1548. There he painted that won-
derful picture of the old pope with his two
nephews, the Duke Ottavio and Cardinal Farnese,
which is now at Vienna. The head of the- pope is
a miracle of character and expression: a- keen-
visaged, thin little man, with meagre fingers like
birds’-elaws, and an eager cunning look, riveting
the gazer like the eye of a snake—nature itself I—
and the pope had either so little or so much vanity
as to be perfectly satisfied : he rewarded the painter
munificently ; he even offered to make his son Pom-
ponio Bishop of Ceneda, which Titian had the good
sense to refuse. While at Rome he painted several
pictures for the Farnese family, among them the
Venus and Adonis, of which a repetition is in our
EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
neither eye nor hand, nor creative energy of mind,
had failed him yet. He was again invited to Fer-
rara, and painted there the portrait of the old pope
Paul III. He then visited Urbino, where he
painted for the duke the famous Venus which
hangs in the Tribune of the Florence Gallery,
and many other pictures. He again, by order of
Charles V.,-repaired to-Bologna, and painted the
emperor, standing, and by his side a favourite Irish
wolf-dog : this picture was given by Philip IV. to
our Charles I., but after his death was sold into
Spain, and is now at Madrid.
Pope Paul III. invited him to Rome, whither
he repaired in 1548. There he painted that won-
derful picture of the old pope with his two
nephews, the Duke Ottavio and Cardinal Farnese,
which is now at Vienna. The head of the- pope is
a miracle of character and expression: a- keen-
visaged, thin little man, with meagre fingers like
birds’-elaws, and an eager cunning look, riveting
the gazer like the eye of a snake—nature itself I—
and the pope had either so little or so much vanity
as to be perfectly satisfied : he rewarded the painter
munificently ; he even offered to make his son Pom-
ponio Bishop of Ceneda, which Titian had the good
sense to refuse. While at Rome he painted several
pictures for the Farnese family, among them the
Venus and Adonis, of which a repetition is in our