Introduction Titian's Last Painting: The Sight of Death An Inglorious Passing; or, The Difficult Case of the Piet à How 'Venetian' was Titian? Surrogate Monuments to the Leader of a Tradition ONE: Art as Appropriation: The Rise of Titian Giovanni Bellini: The Model Venetian Bellini and Titian: Master and Pupil Titian and the Venetian Istoria Titian and Giorgione Giorgione and Titian's Early Portraiture The Early Mythologies Titian Repaints Palma Vecchio TWO: Remaking Tradition: Icons and Altarpieces Anachronic Titian The Modern Icon The Cultural Dynamics of Space in Two Altarpieces for Venice Private Values in a Public Picture Type Altarpiece or Artwork? THREE: Portraiture and Non- venezianità Portraiture in Renaissance Venice Titian's Portraits to 1530: Accommodation of the Courts Habsburg and Related Portraits of the 1530s Historical Portraits Natura Potentior Ars FOUR: Sacred Painting, the Poesie and the Late Style Titian as Tradition Titian's Hybrid Poesie Two Late Mythologies Early Responses to Titian's Late Style The Late Style in Critical and Historical Perspective FIVE: Titian and Venice: Surviving the Father of Art Patrons and Prices Titian versus the Rest: A Literary Self-image Pictor et eques : Titian's Self-portraits Images of Succession Images of Attachment The Darker Side of Titian; or, The Anti-image Venetian Responses to Titian: Veronese and Tintoretto Conclusion Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance Titian in Disguise References Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index.