"One of the best books about an artist I've ever read. A journey. I fucking loved it,"

Michael Armitage, artist

Daily Telegraph

‘Titian died in 1576 in mysterious circumstances, at a time when plague had reduced Venice to a state of chaos. Many of his possessions disappeared along with what official records described as "innumerable paintings of no small value"… Tormented by the thought that there are late Titian masterpieces waiting to be rediscovered, Hudson creates a powerful and evocative portrait of the artist ("a figure of almost limitless creative vitality") and of the city in which he lived and worked’

Guardian

Impassioned, vivid and compellingly told, this is a journey through the Venetian Renaissance towards the stark landscape of Titian’s final paintings. 

‘Jammed full of personalities, semi-fictional incidents and gossipy tittle-tattle. After reading this book we feel that we have been inside Titian’s head; we’ve shared his inner thoughts, we know his motives, we understand his work-orientated approach to the world’

Literary Review

‘See if you can remain unmoved by the very last picture, the nocturnal pieta with the artist as the elderly St Jerome – about to die, but still painting, still transcendant… One of the most perceptive books on an artist I have ever regretted finishing’