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Besides these two books there were also the works of Michael Colyns, of Hans Weigel, of Amman, and of Vecellio himself, all of them well illustrated, some of the drawings in Vecellio being probably from the hand of Titian. Nor was it merely from books and treatises that they acquired their knowledge.
They do the work there today just exactly as they did four hundred years ago, when little Tiziano Vecellio came down from Cadore and worked, getting his ears pinched when he got sleepy, or carelessly put in the red glass when he should have used the blue.
"We were talking about taking a walk; but this is a great journey you are making me take. And I would like to travel very, very far away!" "In that case, Mademoiselle," I said to her, "you must arrange yourself as comfortably as possible for travelling. But you are now sitting on one corner of your chair, so that the chair is standing upon only one leg, and that Vecellio must tire your knees.
But the sixteenth century was not merely the age of Vitruvius; it was the age of Vecellio also. Every nation seems suddenly to have become interested in the dress of its neighbours. Europe began to investigate its own clothes, and the amount of books published on national costumes is quite extraordinary.
And here is this handsome young man already inside; and I cannot really take the girl at once and hide her like a secret treasure in the next room. I wait for him to explain himself; he does it without the least embarrassment; but it seems to me that he has already observed the young girl who is still bending over the table looking at Vecellio.
My name is Vecellio, and if they are going to keep you waiting, I will come and let you in myself." The negress lifted her head. "Your name is Pomponio Vecellio?" "Yes, or Pippo, whichever you like." "You are the son of Titian?" "At your service. What can I do to please you?"
His gaze was fixed upon the Venus, who in her wanton beauty met his looks with dark, flashing eyes. "You have cost me much, fair signora," he said, shrugging his shoulders. "Three thousand ducats for a copy! Who knows whether Titiano Vecellio was paid more for his original in his own time?
Titianus Vecellio, or Titianus Veneziano of the latter. I have already dealt at some length with the question of the former signature, which appears to have been added actually during Titian's lifetime; in the present instance the letters appear almost, if not quite, coeval with the rest of the painting, and were undoubtedly intended for Titian's signature.
Titian, as we call him Tiziano Vecellio, or Vecelli, or Tiziano da Cadore, as he was called by his contemporaries was born in Cadore, a Venetian province. The year of his birth varies according to the biographer. Some say 1477, some 1480, some 1487 or even 1489 and 1490. Be that as it may, he was born in Cadore, the son of a soldier and councillor, Gregorio Vecelli.
The picture has, as a portrait by Titian, no very commanding merit, no seduction of technique, and it is easy to imagine that Cesare Vecellio may have had a share in it. Singular is the absence of all pose, of all attempt to harmonise the main lines of the design or give pictorial elegance to the naïve directness of the presentment.
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