In Discourse Eleven Reynolds cites San Pietro Martire as an example of excellence in landscape. However, like Ruskin, Kugler expresses doubts about the quality of San Pietro Martire, despite its popularity. For Kugler, ed. Eastlake, Handbook of the History of Painting, Part One, The Italian Schools, First Edition, it has a 'constrained. almost mannered character', because subjects in which 'animated action is necessary' are, he suggests, foreign to Titian 's nature. Eastlake, the editor of Murray's handbook of Painting in Italy, written by Kugler, points out that this an 'instance where the judgements of the author differ from received opinions', but Eastlake adds that the
taste for such pictures was not permanent in Titian; he returned to that "senatorial dignity" which Reynolds has pointed out as one of his prominent qualities, and in this view the remark of the author must be allowed its due weight. ( Kugler, ed. Eastlake, Handbook of the History of Painting, Part One, The Italian Schools, First Edition, p363, and p. 363n).