Khayachi’s ideas on art. His copious study on Titian allows absolutely nothing of himself and his own ideas to surface. In typical self-effacing style, he never commits himself to a personal judgement. His work is a purely objective academic study.
Having forged his personality in the silence of the artist’s studio, he identified with Titian and saw him as an alter ego, so that he talks about Titian as he might of himself: ‘Titian was an orderly man who settled his life with imperturbable coolness.’
