_Friendship with Aretino--Its effect on Titian's art--Characteristics of the middle period--"Madonna with St. Catherine" of National Gallery--Portraits not painted from life--"Magdalen" of the Pitti--First Portrait of Charles V.--Titian the painter, par excellence, of aristocratic traits--The "d'Avalos Allegory"--Portrait of Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici--S. Giovanni Elemosinario altar-piece._ Having followed Titian as far as the year 1530, rendered memorable by that sensational, and, of its kind, triumphant achievement, _The Martyrdom of St. Peter the Dominican_, we must retrace our steps some three years in order to dwell a little upon an incident which must appear of vital importance to t…
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