Ukrainian Museum Claims It Owns a Portrait of a Venetian Doge by Titian

KIEV.- The director of a Ukrainian museum claimed Tuesday that a portrait of a Venetian Doge in its collection is a work of Titian, even as an expert warned that art historians are best placed to make that call. Vladimir Ostrovsky said the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, conducted chemical and X-ray analyses that prove Titian’s authorship. The portrait is part of a collection at the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in the Black Sea port of [...]