It is widely accepted as one of the most politically difficult portrait commissions in art history, requiring an understanding of the interplay of relationships with a depth ``worthy of Shakespeare'', in the opinion of art historians Rodolfo Pallucchini and Harold Wethey. However, it was one Titian seems to have resolved; while the complexity of the relationships is all on the canvas, it may have been intended as an indicator to Charles that Paul retained his position as the dominant patriarch -- old and frail but still a man of vitality, and in control of his squabbling descendants.
It is widely accepted as one of the most politically difficult portrait commissions in art history, requiring an understanding of the interplay of relationships with a depth ``worthy of Shakespeare'', in the opinion of art historians Rodolfo Pallucchini and Harold Wethey.
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However, it was one Titian seems to have resolved; while the complexity of the relationships is all on the canvas, it may have been intended as an indicator to Charles that Paul retained his position as the dominant patriarch -- old and frail but still a man of vitality, and in control of his squabbling descendants.
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man
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vitality
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