Tiziano, one of the greats from a Golden Age in art. From the Telegraph:
Is Titian self portrait hidden in The Martyrdom of St Lawrence?
As one of the grisliest pictures he painted, Titian's The Martyrdom of St Lawrence has exerted a horrified fascination for art lovers for centuries.
The masterpiece depicts the unfortunate saint, who had incurred the wrath of imperial Rome for his Christian beliefs, being slowly roasted on a gridiron heated by a blazing fire.
But nearly 500 years after it was painted, an intriguing new detail has come to light, previously unnoticed by scholars – an apparent self-portrait of the Renaissance master, tucked away in the bottom left hand corner of the 15ft-high work.
A year-long restoration has revealed a man's head, swathed in a turban, gazing at the saint as he writhes on the red-hot gridiron and extends his arm in agony to the heavens.
The man's face bears a striking resemblance to known portraits of Titian, one of the giants of the Renaissance who was born Tiziano Vecellio in Belluno in what was then the Venetian Republic in around 1488.
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