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2 unusual facts about Harold Wethey


History painting

So for example Harold Wethey's three-volume catalogue of the paintings of Titian (Phaidon, 1969–75) is divided between "Religious Paintings", "Portraits", and "Mythological and Historical Paintings", though both volumes I and III cover what is included in the term "History Paintings".

Pope Paul III and his Grandsons

It is widely accepted as one of the most politically difficult portrait commissions in art history, requiring an ubnderstanding of the interplay of relationships with a dept "worthy of Shakespeare", in the opinion of art historians Rodolfo Pallucchini and Harold Wethey.



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