Sansovino on Titian
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“It is a custom of this city [Venice] that the Prince [The Doge] when in office should do three things: procure his own likeness of life size, to be placed in a certain lunette beneath the ceiling of the Hall of Great Council, and for this Titian had a salary..”
“Titian painted two pictures in the Hall of Great Council [of Venice], one of the Pope setting his foot on the neck of Barbarossa, the other of a fight [ 'The Battle of Cadore' ] which was done [by Titian] later.”