painting them in motion. The effect, paradoxically, was to set them apart.
Natural painting was a critical and com- mercial success, say the authors, because it "opened a fresh avenue of mediation be- tween God and men" in a city whose citi- zens feared that God had turned His back on them. One writer of the day said that Titian's pictures "have a touch of divinity in them . . . his colors are infused as though God has put the paradise of our bodies in them, not painted, but made...