This lecture takes a deep dive into the storied history of Titian’s Portrait of a Lady and Her Daughter.

This Venetian portrait is a prime case study in modern restorations that convert the work back to the artist’s original vision, an effort that in this case took 20 years to complete.

In this lecture we are guided through the history of the painting, who the sitters are, and why after Titian’s death, it was first altered to depict Tobias and the archangel Raphael, a change that was discovered in 1948 after x-radiographic analysis.