We stand before a canvas once touched by the fingers of both Giorgione and Titian.

I know that restorers’ fingers may long since have erased all traces of the two masters’ palms,

still it’s difficult not to be moved.

~ Adam Zagajewski, Slight Exaggeration: An Essay

Notes:

• Painting 1 (‘La Vecchia / The Old /Woman’, c.1506) by Giorgione (1478-1510),  an Italian painter of the Venetian school in the High Renaissance from Venice.
• Painting 2 (The Entombment, 1559) by Titian (1488-1576) an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.
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