the importance of titians pesaro and assunta altarpiece from a stylistic and iconographic point of v That painting was made by a venetian artist, probably titian, sometime around 1510 (fig 5)54 by 1519 the painting had made its way into the church of the scuola di san rocco, an important lay confraternity, and in that year the painting began to perform nu- ____ merous miraculous healings55 the picture’s cult was 6 titian, assunta, 1516–1518.