Article: An orgy of wine, lust; In this second review of the National Gallery's Titian exhibition, we see four great paintings brought together for the first time since they were separated in 1621.

Byline: BRIAN SEWELL

IT was from Titian's example that thick impastose paint and coarse canvas became the widespread tools of European painting. With them came the understanding that obvious and identifiable brushstrokes materially contribute to our pleasure and excitement, the understanding that a loaded brush drawing a trail of paint in its wake across the grain of a canvas that lends it texture and unity is a tactile magic that enhances our ability to identify with both the subject painted and the painter in the act of painting it.

This is not to suggest that Titian was always and invariably a painter of lumps, bumps and bravura - he was not - but ...

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