THE NEW OLD MASTERS; An 'Annunciation,' an 'Assumption' & the Resurrection of Titian From: The Washington Post | Date: February 26, 1995| Author: Paul Richard | Copyright 1995 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

There's a "Titian" at the Hirshhorn. Coincidentially--tellingly-- there's a second at the Corcoran. They're contemporary pictures, up- to-date in mood. Yet both of them present images conceived by the fabulous Italian who died of plague in Venice more than four centuries ago.

The "Titian" at the Hirshhorn, a new museum acquisition, is an eerily blurred canvas by the German Gerhard Richter, born in 1932.

The "Titian" at the Corcoran -- a big, pieced-together photograph on bent, tr...

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