Allegory
around 1560 | Paris Paschalinus Bordon, gen. Bordone
This allegory of a wedding or marriage shows a couple in the costumes of Mars and Venus, to whom a winged genius (Victoria?) and the small god of love, Cupid, give myrtles and roses. Bordone, a pupil of Titian’s, turned in his mature period to the form and colour preferences of Central Italian Mannerism; above all the cold, shimmering colours, the monumentality of the figure conception and the unstable nature of the composition point in this direction.
This allegory of a wedding or marriage shows a couple in the costumes of Mars and Venus, to whom a winged genius (Victoria?) and the small god of love, Cupid, give myrtles and roses. Bordone, a pupil of Titian’s, turned in his mature period to the form and colour preferences of Central Italian Mannerism; above all the cold, shimmering colours, the monumentality of the figure conception and the unstable nature of the composition point in this direction.
Artist:
Paris Paschalinus Bordon, gen. Bordone (1500 Treviso - 1571 Venedig) DNB
Time:
around 1560
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
oben 4 cm angestückt: Overall: 109 cm × 176 cm
Framed: 138 cm × 202,5 cm × 9 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 120
Provenance
1783 documented in the gallery;
According to Garas (1987) the painting (with its counterpart GG_69) could have been bought by Leopold Wilhelm from the Staininger Collection in Augsburg in 1643.