Article: Have I got nudes for you.

Byline: SARAH WALDEN

Kings, popes and dukes clamoured to have their portrait painted by Titian. But on the eve of this year's much-anticipated exhibition at the National Gallery, Sarah Walden, who has restored Titian's paintings for the Louvre, says that it is for sumptuous nudes that he is best remembered.

Titian was the world's first celebrity painter, the very opposite of our romantic idea of an artist. He was never poor or starving and did not live in a garret, struggling to make his name. He did not die early, nor was he tragically ignored in his lifetime. For most of his long life - 91 years - he was rich and famous, lived luxuriously in a ...

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