Martin Gayford

To ‘review’ such supreme paintings is slightly absurd: Titian at the National Gallery reviewed

Titian's late pictures are executed with a looseness and freedom that still startles

Crime scene: ‘The Rape of Europa’, 1559–62, by Titian

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