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Contents 6 Titian in Venice: The Early Years 14 Rise to Prominence: Madonnas and Beautiful Women 30 Fame and Wider Horizons: The Assumption of the Virgin, the Pesaro Madonna and the Ferrara Bacchanals 40 The 1530s: New Ideas and New Patrons 52 Papal Patronage and Give and Take with Rome 68 Working for the Habsburgs: Charles V and Philip II 78 “Chromatic Alchemy”: The Late Works 94 Titian c. 1490–1576 Life and Work
