This study is based on Titian’s painting of c.1514, which had been in Rome since 1608 when it was bought by Cardinal Scipione Borghese. Castiglione’s unease at drawing the nude highlights the inadequacies of his training. He also seems to misunderstand the contemporary debate about the relative merits of disegno (‘design’ or ‘drawing’) and colore – he took Titian’s colore to mean merely ‘colourful’, and transcribed the Venetian’s elegant modulation and saturation with almost random scribbles of colour. Cat. 10