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features seven paintings by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), the preeminent artist among Venetian painters during the 16th century. At the time (1540), Venice reigned as one of the most powerful city-states in Europe, and Venetian painters assumed a position of artistic supremacy in Europe that they would occupy for the rest of the century. (National Gallery of Art)
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