Grandpa's List
Raphael
Titian
Millet
Van Gogh
Gauguin
Picasso
"There's no way Titian
painted your painting," I told her. "This painting of Titian is
about Jesus Christ."
 Detail of mystery painting |
I explained: "Back in the High Renaissance--that's the 1500's--artists like Titian
usually painted only famous or important people. Generally that meant people
from the Bible or classical Greek or Roman myths, or important people in
his own time--like anyone loaded enough to pay him to paint their portraits." |
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"But the people in your
painting look as ordinary as apple pie. Peasants like these wouldn't rate
as background with Titian. Let's look at that list of your grandpa's again."