Michelangelo and Titian’s Rivalry That May Never Have Been

Michelangelo and Titian’s Rivalry That May Never Have Been

Pay heed to the word “tale” in the title of William E. Wallace’s book Michelangelo & Titian: A Tale of Rivalry and Genius. Wallace, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, is a world authority on Michelangelo. Yet unlike his eight prior academic titles on the artist, this one is not grounded in new or existing primary sources, for there is scant evidence linking Michelangelo and Titian. Moreover, Wallace openly uses what he calls “inf…