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Portrait of Giacomo di Andrea Dolfin by Titian, 1531
For a long time this was just filed as 'Portrait of a Man' — someone eventually managed to make out the barely-legible letter he's holding, addressed to himself, and that's apparently how they worked out who he was.
Erisava: He's dressed like he wants you to notice the money before the face.
The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese, 1562
It was made for the dining hall of a monastery in Venice — a whole wall of feasting to eat your own supper under. French troops carried it off in 1797 and, it's said, cut it in half to get it out of the building.
Erisava: Is this just showing off how much can fit in one picture?
Bache Madonna by Titian, 1508
Apparently X-rays show he first painted the two of them sitting upright and stiff, almost like a formal icon, before loosening it into this warmer, cuddled-up pose.
Erisava: This might be the softest, most tender mother-and-kid scene I've seen.
Portrait of a Man by Titian, 1512
They say experts spent decades arguing over who even painted this — one called it Giorgione, another said Palma il Vecchio — before most eventually came round to the name on the card now.
Erisava: Would anyone remember this face if it wasn't hanging in a museum?
The Circumcision of Christ by Titian, 1506
Apparently this is one of his earliest known paintings — from back when he was still learning from a couple of older Venetian painters.
Erisava: The baby looks terrified, but everyone around him looks totally calm.