More than 60 artists from all over the UK have also joined the campaign to save the Titians, including Lucian Freud and Sir Peter Blake.

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The most beautiful of cities, with the paint still wet on the late Bellinis and Titians, Venice also had wonderful music, geisha-like courtesans, and a life of endless, mostly free conversation.

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It's not enough to have some decent Titians, Mantegna's and Van Dycks hanging on the walls at the palace (and, yes, I know there's a Freud) what's required with all these recent cuts in government subsidies of the arts is some serious hefting behind modern British works.

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