Historical novel set around ENGLAND (Birmingham)
Titian: His Life
Location(s): Venice
Genre(s): Nonfiction
Era(s): 1500s
By about the 80th page, you begin to wonder whether this isn’t the biographical equivalent of Where’s Wally? For amid the cast of characters fleshing out the first four chapters of Sheila Hale’s weighty, reverential account of the life and times of Titian, the great Venetian artist has been given neither a speaking part nor barely a spear-carrying – or paintbrush-wielding – one. The artist appears as the shadowy companion to the thing that really seems to fascinate this biographer, Venice itself. The Independent
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