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Harold E. Wethey
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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1946–72. Author of Colonial Architecture and Sculpture in Peru; El Greco and His School; The Complete Paintings of Titian.

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Titian: Venus of Urbino
Titian was the greatest Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. He was recognized early in his own lifetime as a supremely talented painter, and his reputation has in the intervening centuries never suffered a decline. In 1590, the art theorist Giovanni Lomazzo declared him β€œthe sun…
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