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    The Stuff of Myth

    Nov 01, 2020 4 minutes
    BY SARAH E. FENSOM

    STAYING TOGETHER isn’t always easy. In the case of Titian’s poesie, the six mythological paintings he made in the 1550s and ’60s for Philip of Spain, breaking up took but a few decades. Dispersed piecemeal from the Spanish royal collection, only the Prado’s Venus and Adonis (about 1553–54) stayed in Madrid.

    Perseus and Andromeda (about 1554–56) left Spain first and was brought to London by the artist and art scout Anthony van Dyck some time after 1623. It eventually entered the Wallace Collection in London. The Rape of Europa (1559–62) also decamped for Great Britain but was acquired

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