"It has always been well-known that throughout his long career the great Venetian painter Titian (c. 1490-1576) produced numerous variants after his most successful compositions. Sometimes these were executed more-or-less completely by the master himself, but more often they were produced in collaboration with his workshop assistants. The practicalities involved in this process of variation and replication have been a topic of growing scholarly attention in recent years, using the tools both of traditional connoisseurship and of innovative scientific investigation. Taking as its starting point ‘The Baptism of Christ’ in the A. G. Leventis Gallery, the present volume consists of a number of case studies of particular compositions, together with other studies of the ways in which Titian sought to vary and diffuse his imagery, thereby adding further to his already very great fame."-- Provided by publisher.
Introduction: the composition of themes and variations by Titian and his workshop / Giorgio Tagliaferro -- Titian's portraits of Charles V in armour: originals, variants and copies / Fausta Navarro -- Titian's Magdalens: money, measurements, mise-en-page / Carlo Corsato -- The Mocking of Christ, the Recognition of Christ's Dvinity and the Ecce Homo by Titian and his studio / Paul Joannides -- Painting layers and secrets of a reused canvas: Titian's Ecce Homo in the Pittas Collection / Nikolas Bakirtzis, Svetlana Gasanova, Ropertos Georgiou, Sorin Hermon -- Titian and the theme of Venus with a Mirror / Peter Humfrey -- Titian's Barbarigo Madonna: the original and its variants / Irina Artemieva -- Out of the shadows: some notes on the new Tribute Money by Titian / Mauro Lucco -- Titian's metamorphoses / Miguel Falomir -- True images: Titian's involvement in reproductive printmaking / Matthias Wivel.