“... image of a murderer from the hand prints of a child. Paton had studied the pagan lovers of Titian. He borrowed the fluttering cloak of the leaping Bacchus in the National Gallery for his Oberon in The Quarrel, and the tripping and tumbling fairy followers in both that painting and The Reconciliation owe something to Bacchus’ unruly rout. More often ...”

“... which like the Basket of Fruit was meant for the open market, were not Jesus and Mary but Titian and Poussin. Whereas in his writings Delacroix frowned on the mannerisms of Boucher, he could launch into wholesale Rococo fantasia in a canvas of Bathers in a woodland stream. Curiosity, perhaps, on the part of the Louvre’s most devoted student, who ...”

“... blouse, which exceeds the canvas. Perhaps she learned from Rembrandt’s early portraits, or from Titian, how a posture becomes a declaration, a costume a character.This painting is crucially missing from the current exhibition at Pallant House, which considers John alongside her contemporaries and antecedents (until 8 October). It seems astonishing that ...”

“... Cranach the Elder, Lorenzo Lotto, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Guido Reni, Rubens, Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese and others.Collecting and commissioning on such a breathtaking scale reduced the Gonzagas to bankruptcy, and by the time of Ferdinando’s death in 1626 it had become clear to the duke and his brother Vincenzo, who inherited the dukedom, that ...”

“... provocative comparisons – between advertisements and 17th-century oil paintings, pin-ups and Titian nudes. These comparisons were offensive to many – in particular, to art historians. Berger seemed to discount aesthetic experience: he explained, but did not appreciate or discriminate, and, by implication, he disparaged the disciplines of ...”

“... in Ms Greer’s index. On her last page Ms Greer admits there is ‘no female Leonardo, no female Titian, no female Poussin’. This is not, she remarks, because ‘women have wombs’ but because ‘you cannot make great artists out of egos that have been damaged, with wills that are defective.’ Few people now believe the old superstition that a womb is an ...”

“... Fuseli, Flaxman and Turner. (On one occasion the company appears to have been particularly grand: Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck – until one looks again and realises that this time the rectangle is not someone’s dining-table but Lord Bridgewater’s picture gallery.) Farington was a sociable man. Throughout the diary people and pictures are inextricably ...”

“... would have rounded off that singular life better than these calamitous daubs . . . Unlike Titian or Michelangelo, Picasso failed in old age. Whatever one’s own view of the late Picassos, it would be unreasonable to grudge Penrose’s persistence or not to admire his superhuman efforts as a Picasso-man. Many of his analyses of Picasso’s work are ...”

“... agencement – transcend desire or love itself, and assail Bora from the stolen painting of Titian it is his task to locate:At once Bora’s attention fastened on it. There, languidly twisted to one side, the slick female body emerged in fleshy half-seen surfaces from the shadow, as if pouring out of nothingness in order to bloom before him … The ...”

“... claim that he makes for the Velásquez is true of other paintings discussed here, most notably Titian’s Venus in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, who also looks into a glass held by Cupid but whose reflected eye so quickly and startlingly catches ours. It is correct to emphasise that Velásquez and his patrons were familiar with 16th-century ...”

“... chandelier above the plush this pantheon shattered on, with Titania’s leashed pards in pastiche Titian, Faust with Mephisto, Joan, Nathan the Wise, all were blown, in that Allied bombing mission, out of their painted clouds into the skies. Repainted, reupholstered, all in place just as it had been before that fatal night, but however devilish the leading ...”

“... depiction of the visual world, especially in landscape and portraiture. Leonardo, Raphael and Titian, he implies, have been engaged in un-Italian activities. In any case, the passage should be balanced by the warm praise for Northern art in Dolce’s Dialogue on Painting, where Aretino observes that Raphael himself pinned Dürer’s prints on his studio ...”

“... Maulbertsch (‘the great master of murals’) whom he puts in his heaven for painters along with Titian (‘how can a mere mortal be such a great artist?’) Velazquez, Breughel, Grünewald, Dürer and Munch. His artistic hell included all non-figurative painters, but was otherwise quite catholic, with places in the eternal fire for Schiele, Grosz and ...”

“... up behind her when she was sketching in the Louvre and remarked on her auburn hair: ‘So like a Titian.’ She was not displeased.) In 1904, she went with her husband to live in Bremen (he was in charge of the cotton exchange there) and over the next ten years made frequent trips to Worpswede. She was especially close to Modersohn and to Rilke, neither of ...”

“... a brief liaison with the famous singer Henriette Sontag, and, mysteriously, to a nude painted by Titian which comes to life for his benefit (and which presumably cost him a great deal of money); he speaks of adoring the ‘soulful blue eyes’ and kissing the ‘velvet’ hand of Lady Garvagh (who was married to a cousin of the prime minister, George ...”