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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6

Note 104 — BOOK VI[60]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Titian's Assumption, one of the most renowned of existing pictures, was discovered by Count Cicognara in the church of the Frari, for which it had been painted as an altar-piece. It was restored and removed to the Accademia di Belle Arti, where it still hangs.—T.

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