n Annunciation for the Church of S. Maria
degli Angeli at Murano, but he who had caused it to be painted not
being willing to spend five hundred crowns upon it, which Tiziano was
asking, by the advice of Messer Pietro Aretino he sent it as a gift to
the above-named Emperor Charles V, who, liking that work vastly, made
him a present of two thousand crowns; and where that picture was to
have been placed, there was set in its stead one by the hand of
Pordenone. Nor had any long time passed when Charles V, returning to
Bologna for a conference with Pope Clement, at the time when he came
with his army from Hungary, desired to be portrayed again by Tiziano.
Before departing from Bologna, Tiziano also painted a portrait of the
above-named Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici in Hungarian dress, and in a
smaller picture the same man in full armour; both which portraits are
now in the guardaroba of Duke Cosimo. At that same time he executed a
portrait of Alfonso Davalos, Marchese del Vasto, and one of the
above-named Pietro Aretino, who then contrived that he should become
the friend and servant of Federigo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, with whom
Tiziano went to his States and there painted a portrait of him, which
is a living likeness, and then one of the Cardinal, his brother. These
finished, he painted, for the adornment of a room among those of
Giulio Romano, twelve figures from the waist upwards of the twelve
Caesars, very beautiful, beneath each of which the said Giulio
afterwards painted a story from their lives.

[Illustration: TIZIANO: THE DUKE OF NORFOLK

(_Florence: Pitti, 92. Canvas_)]

In Cadore, his native place, Tiziano has painted an altar-picture
wherein are Our Lady, S. Tiziano the Bishop, and a portrait of himself
kneeling. In the year when Pope Paul III went to Bologna, and from
there to Ferrara, Tiziano, having gone to the Court, made a portrait
of that Pope, which was a very beautiful work, and from it another for
Cardinal S. Fiore; and both these portraits, for which he was very
well paid by the Pope, are in Rome, one in the guardaroba of Cardinal
Farnese, and the other in the possession of the heirs of the
above-named Cardinal S. Fiore, and from them have been taken many
copies, which are dispersed throughout Italy. At this same time, also,
he made a portrait of Francesco Maria, Duke of Urbino, which was a
marvellous work; wherefore M. Pietro Aretino on this account
celebrated him in a sonnet that began:

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