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Titian grasped with imperious tenacity his supremacy as a painter, sedulously kept the secrets of his skill, and was most unmagnanimously jealous of the attainments of his scholars.

From The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Tytler, Sarah