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Updated: June 24, 2025
It may contain no Titian's ashes, but both Giovanni and Gentile Bellini lie here; and its forty-six Doges give it a cachet. We come at once to two of them, for on the outside wall are the tombs of Doge Jacopo Tiepolo, who gave the land for the church, and of his son, Doge Lorenzo Tiepolo.
In his red cap he rides with a fine assurance and is the best horseman in Venice after the great Colleoni. In the choir, where Titian's "Assumption" once was placed, are two more dead Doges.
But indeed I could not blame the inhabitants of Titian's house; and were I condemned to live in a place so famous as to attract idle curiosity, flushed and insolent with travel, I should go to the verge of man-traps and shot-guns to protect myself. This house, which is now hemmed in by larger buildings of later date, had in the painter's time an incomparably "lovely and delightful situation."
It may not boast Titian's glow of colour, or Raphael's grandeur of design, in delicate angelic beauty, it may yield to the delightful efforts of Guido's or Correggio's pencil, but surely no human conception can ever have more touchingly portrayed the beauteous resigned mother.
To see and perpetuate these subtle qualities, which go so far to redeem the physical drawbacks of the House of Hapsburg, the painter must have had a peculiar instinct for what is aristocratic in the higher sense of the word that is, both outwardly and inwardly distinguished. This was indeed one of the leading characteristics of Titian's great art, more especially in portraiture.
A yellow lemon is specially striking, and the red curtain to the left harmonises with the whole. The uplift of the arms and the turn of the head give the desired amount of action. It is not Titian's customary style of work; he seldom did anything so intimate and personal, and the picture is the more interesting on that account. It is in the Berlin Gallery.
"Are you sure?" he persisted. "Absolutely certain," I replied. "I pointed it out to papa in the picture itself in the Louvre; he had not observed it before either." "I am very glad to know there is such a thing there. I need not answer your question, you see. It is odd enough I should have put in the black puss. Upon some grounds I might argue that my puss is better than Titian's lamb."
Tell fair AURELIA, she has charms, Might in a hermit stir desire. T' attain the heav'n that's in her arms, I'd quit the world's alluring harms, And to a cell content, retire. Of all that pleas'd my ravish'd eye, Her beauty should supply the place; Bold Raphael's strokes, and Titian's dye, Should but in vain presume to vie With her inimitable face.
Thou hast treated me like a queen, my Marco!" "I wished it so," he answered impatiently, for he could not wait. "And the face " "Never hath there been a more exquisite! It is the Titian's work?" "Nay, of the Veronese; for the goblet is of mine own designing. And the master, for my sake, hath spent himself upon the face." "He will be here to-night, and we will thank him," she answered graciously.
The lagoon was of a perfect, shining smoothness, broken by the shallows over which the ebbing tide had left the sea-weed trailed like long, disheveled hair. The fishermen, as they waded about staking their nets, or stooped to gather the small shell-fish of the shallows, showed legs as brown and tough as those of the apostles in Titian's Assumption.
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