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Crowning with Thorns

1575: Alte Pinakothek, Munich

With this very late masterpiece, Titian repeated a subject that he had already executed thirty years earlier for Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Here the light comes only from the torch, and falls like a rain of fire on the figures glimmering in the shadows beneath.
 
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