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THE LANDSCAPE ANNUAL.
Having completed his labours at Rome, Titian, in the
May following, set out on his return to Venice by way
of Florence, in which city he remained a few days.
He visited Poggio a Cajano, where Cosmo de’ Medici
was then residing, whose portrait he would have painted,
had not the Florentine, either from indifference or a
wish to encourage native artists, declined to press the
subject. Titian hastened on to Venice, where the warm
welcome of his family and his friends, and numerous en-
gagements with the Imperial court and the Venetian
senate awaited him. In vain had the pope sought to
prolong his residence at Rome, by offering him the
bishoprick of Ceneda for his son, and other advantages
he had already amassed a sufficient fortune, and enjoyed
a handsome income from the emperoi’ and the seignory
of Venice. Though in his seventieth year, he was in
vigorous health, and still enthusiastically devoted to his
art. When he was eighty years old he lost his old
friend Aretino, and, thirteen years afterwards, Giacomo
Sansovino, to whom he had been so long attached.
While his parents survived, Titian had been in the
habit of paying regular visits to Cadore, and he always
maintained the same mild and affectionate demeanour
towards his sons, his brother, and other relatives. From
the year 1530, when he visited the different courts of
Italy, he was induced to live on a more liberal and ex-
tended scale, though without relinquishing his simple
habits and his extreme attachment to his beloved art.
Besides the pleasant residence he possessed at San
Canciano, he took another, with delightful orchards and
gardens, situated in that part of Venice that overlooks
THE LANDSCAPE ANNUAL.
Having completed his labours at Rome, Titian, in the
May following, set out on his return to Venice by way
of Florence, in which city he remained a few days.
He visited Poggio a Cajano, where Cosmo de’ Medici
was then residing, whose portrait he would have painted,
had not the Florentine, either from indifference or a
wish to encourage native artists, declined to press the
subject. Titian hastened on to Venice, where the warm
welcome of his family and his friends, and numerous en-
gagements with the Imperial court and the Venetian
senate awaited him. In vain had the pope sought to
prolong his residence at Rome, by offering him the
bishoprick of Ceneda for his son, and other advantages
he had already amassed a sufficient fortune, and enjoyed
a handsome income from the emperoi’ and the seignory
of Venice. Though in his seventieth year, he was in
vigorous health, and still enthusiastically devoted to his
art. When he was eighty years old he lost his old
friend Aretino, and, thirteen years afterwards, Giacomo
Sansovino, to whom he had been so long attached.
While his parents survived, Titian had been in the
habit of paying regular visits to Cadore, and he always
maintained the same mild and affectionate demeanour
towards his sons, his brother, and other relatives. From
the year 1530, when he visited the different courts of
Italy, he was induced to live on a more liberal and ex-
tended scale, though without relinquishing his simple
habits and his extreme attachment to his beloved art.
Besides the pleasant residence he possessed at San
Canciano, he took another, with delightful orchards and
gardens, situated in that part of Venice that overlooks