From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1997| Author: Humfrey, Peter | COPYRIGHT 1997 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This study focuses on a selection of mature portraits by Titian, all painted between about 1537 and 1550. During this period Titian enjoyed a particularly close relationship with Pietro Aretino, who was tirelessly active as his agent and publicist; as her title suggests, Freedman's purpose is to make the fullest possible use of Aretino's voluminous Lettere as a means of evaluating the various ways in which Titian's contemporaries - especially his sitters - responded to his portraits....