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G. Fiocco .
Milan  15. V. 1972

"I know this very beatiful painting, and have studiet it, during its fortunate restoration, and I can declare with all tranquility and conviction, that I believe it a work wothy and  authographed by Titian Vecellio .  Regards is composition, there is ni doubt, that it it is connected with the "Venus of Urbino." Now in the Uffizzi Gallery, in Florence, and is inspired by the masterpiece of Giogione, in Dresden .  However for the tecnique, and the presence of the two Satyrs, the picture of cm. 100x 190; is similar to the one called "the Pardo;" in the Louvre .  The artist, perhaps reproducing a work begun in youth  has imparted  to it the firy tones the large touch, that we see in the " Venus of the player " in Madrid . and in Berlin .

In the same way the wonderful woman shows  herself in the front of the room, uniting the landscape, and the dark red draperies .

This feeling is augmented by the admiration of the Satyrs ; and by the orchestration of the beautiful colouring .

So, to my opinion, we  pass 1560; when the "great Cadorino", dramatized to the upmost, his figures, his landscapes , his paintings, on the eve of his admirable, still productive old age .

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Antonio Morassi .
Milan

"TITIAN .     From the " Sleeping Venus " of Dresden , ( attributed to Giogione) but which is really one of the masterpiece of the youth of Titian,  certainly inspired to the  Master of Castelfranco but all by the hand of "Vecellio, the motive of the sleeping woman continues ot insist in the phanthasy of the " Cadorino " .

It is extreemely instructive to follow the evolution of the beauty in the women, in the Titian types , so in the contrasts between lanscapes, and draperies and the surrounding draperies .

Repeating the Venus of Urbino,  painted in 1538, but changing