A new show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts charts the competition among the three giants of 16th-century Venetian art Titian brought the Renaissance nude into its full glory. Here the Godess of love ...

Titian Vecellio, "Venus and the Lute Player" (c. 1565–70), oil on canvas; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (© The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Pay heed to the word “tale” in the title of William E.

Michelangelo remarked of his Venetian colleague, “it was a shame that in Venice they did not learn to draw well.” ...

Titian, “Venus and Adonis” (ca. 1554), oil on canvas, 186 × 207 cm, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (© Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, all images courtesy National Gallery of ...

14 1/2 x 21 in. (36.8 x 53.3 cm.) Frame: 19 3/4 x 26 1/4 in. (50.2 x 66.7 cm.) ...

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Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. [not numbered] (Sale info: $20.00). "Excellent engraver; born in the Orkney Islands, 1721; died at London, 1792. Venus, after Titian. $20.00." [P. 32.] ...