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Article: Titian at the National Gallery.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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THE National Gallery rightly claims that Titian, its latest exhibition, is the first sizeable British review of that master's work. In all, 276 paintings are attributed to Titian, of which eighty are lost. 196 remain, of which the National Gallery shows forty-two. Eleven come from its own collection, where they could equally well have been studied. Another five were already in this country. Only thirty-one paintings by Titian, or related to him, have been brought from abroad. On such a signal occasion more enterprise was desirable. More than thirty Titians will remain in the permanent collection at the Prado in Madrid when this exhibition joins them in June.
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