The bus-stop Titian. It hardly has the same ring about it as The Longleat Titian, which Christie’s would rather we call it. But, perhaps inevitably, the sensational story of the theft, 29 years ago, of Titian’s The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1508-10), and its later reappearance at a London bus shelter, has dominated the headlines as the auction house prepares to sell this exquisite early painting by the Venetian master, made at a pivotal moment in Titian’s career and in the history of the Renaissance.
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