\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 This portrait was painted during TitianÆs first stay in Augsburg, at the court of Emperor Charles V, who was to make the Ven
etian artist his official portraitist. Titian faithfully depicts the sovereignÆs features, clothing and honors, but the setting appears to be an imaginary one: a room whose walls are lined with damask and which faces onto a generic landscape as if it we
