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Aretino and Michelangelo, Dolce and Titian: Femmina, Masculo, Grazia
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. . . you could truly say it was maidenly for a boy or boyish for a girl.-Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.322-23(1)
Between October 1545 and March 1546 Titian resided in Rome under the auspices of the Farnese. Little more than a decade earlier the family patriarch had been elected Pope Paul III and in this capacity named Michelangelo "Supreme Architect, Sculptor, and Painter to the Apostolic Palace."2 Thus, in the winter of 1545-46 Titian and Michelangelo, the "two aging chieftains of Renaissance art," found not only their works but also themselves in the same place at the same time.3 According to Giorgio Vasari, who also enjoyed Farnese largess, Michelangelo one day decided to visit …
