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Italian artist leaving Goa in terrible agitation (6)

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titian

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'italian artist' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for titian that I've seen before include "Italian painter; hair colour" , "Italian 16th-century painter" , "Italian Old Master and colour" , "The painter Tiziano Vecellio" , "Venetian fifteenth-sixteenth century painter" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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