Titian and Palma Vecchio are credited with inventing these poetic “belle Veneziane”. Palma’s sumptuously-attired young woman is also known as Bella, “The Beauty”. She tenderly touches her hair while clutching her dower basket.
Titian’s
Vision
of Women
5 October 2021 – 30 January 2022
A major Autumn Exhibition 2021
Exhibition ended
400,000 visitors saw »Bruegel – Once in a Lifetime« in 2018.
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340,000 visitors saw
»Caravaggio & Bernini« in 2019.
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»Titian’s Vision of Women«,
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Beauty – Love – Poetry
Shortly after 1500, Titian in Venice began to produce paintings in which women were depicted in a new light. Inspired by contemporary love poetry and literature, Titian and his contemporaries – including Palma Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto, Paris Bordone, Jacopo Tintoretto and Paolo Veronese – began to create poetic, sensual, idealizing (and ground-breaking) depictions of women that inspired European painting for centuries.
This exhibition examines the Venetian image of women in the context of sixteenth-century ideals and contemporary society.
In his paintings of women Titian celebrates them as the most splendid subject in life, in love and in art. High-calibre loans from international museums and collections join selected masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum to illustrate this fascinating, multi-facetted topic.
Titian´s Vision of Women: Beauty – Love – Poetry
Titian’s Vision of Women: Beauty – Love – Poetry (IGS, sign language)
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The ideal portrait: launching the “belle donne”
The feminine becomes the artist’s ideal
Once portrait painters discovered women as a subject for their art, the genre evolved from realistic likenesses to depictions of blond young women regarded as the ideal of feminine beauty in Venice.
Questions of identity are increasingly less relevant, although we can assume that each painting must have had a model/sitter. Here too the focus is less on verisimilitude than on erotic attraction, designed to cast a spell over the viewer. A beautiful body was regarded as the reflection of a beautiful mind.
Palma il Vecchio
Portrait of a Woman, called "La Bella"
1518/20
Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Titian
Violante
1510/14
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Her loose blond hair falling over her shoulders, Titian’s beauty – thanks to the violet in her décolleté she is known as Violante – faces the spectator/us, her gaze expressing curiosity without trying to “flirt” with the viewer. She is beautifully dressed and the fingers of her left hand form a “V”, something frequently found in contemporary ideal portraits of female sitters. This “V” has variously been identified as a reference to Venus, to virtue, or, in this case, to violets (viola in Italian). The small flower is a symbol of a young bride.
Some paintings are related and have evolved from
a single predecessor.
Titian
Portrait of a Lady ("La Bella")
1534/36
Florence, Uffizi Galleries
© Galleria Palatina e Appartamenti Reali di Palazzo Pitti, su concessione del Ministero della cultura
Titian
Young Woman in a Fur
1534/36
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Titian
Woman with a Plumed Hat
1534/36
St Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum
© The State Hermitage Museum, 2021, Foto: Dmitri Sirotkin
Newly restored, the ravishing paintings of "Bella" from Florence and the Hermitage’s "Young Woman with a Plumed Hat" are (re-)united with the panel now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
X-rays of the painting in Vienna reveal that the artist initially painted an exact version of the picture now in Florence before adding the now-visible alterations. This means the female sitter, originally lavishly-attired in a blue robe (La Bella, Florence), is increasingly sensualized: she still sports precious pearls and jewels and costly furs and hats but also reveals increasing amounts of skin.
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“Realistic” Portraits
The leading Venetian masters produced surprisingly few identifiable portraits of individual female sitters. The small number of surviving early likenesses were executed on the mainland, where, as the heads of family clans, women generally played a more prominent role than Venetian women.
Titian
“La Schiavona”
1510/12
London, The National Gallery
© The National Gallery, London
This is generally explained with Venice’s tightly regulated and restricted form of government, where only men held power. Women were generally excluded from government and are therefore rarely present in paintings. Today, many of his female sitters are (still) anonymous, like the Schiavona now in London.
Portraits between reality and idealizing wishful thinking: art can make you young again
Titian produced portraits of famous women – the wives of the rulers of the many Italian principalities. Many of them he never actually met, basing his portraits on the likenesses by other artists.
Titian
Isabella d’Este, Marquise of Mantua (1474–1539)
1534/36
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Isabella d’Este was so bored with sitting for him that Titian had to make do with using earlier portraits of her as a model, eventually depicting the by now sixty-year-old marchioness as a dazzlingly beautiful twenty-year-old.
Family ties
The female sitters in some of his portraits have been identified as members of his own family: perhaps the most famous of these is the painting in Dresden that presumably depicts his daughter Lavinia.
Titian
Potrait of Lavinia
c.1565
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
© Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: Elke Estel/Hans-Peter Klut
Titian and Workshop
Portrait of a Woman (traiditionally identified with Lavinia)
c.1565
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Jacopo Tintoretto
Portrait of a Young Woman
1553/55
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Other Venetian painters also produced portraits of female sitters. Tintoretto’s anonymous lady faces us with a surprisingly unceremonious directness. An early feminist who self-assuredly holds the gaze of any man who glances in her direction?
Anonymous
Portrait of a Young Woman
Brescia, c.1540
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
This beautiful but melancholic young woman remains an enigma. Is she indulging her dreams of love? Does her introverted attitude reflect the educated mind of a humanist?
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Mirrors
The mirror as an instrument of complex visual
connections and a means of self-awareness
»In the mirror I try to recognize him who watches me through my eyes in the mirror«
Arthur Feldmann (1926-2012), Austrian-Jewish writer, emigrated to Israel in 1939 as Aharon Shadmoni, from 1956 in France as André Chademony
Titian
Young Woman at her Toilet
c.1515
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Franck Raux
Beauty loves a mirror. The mirror, or the image it produces, was long a rival of painters who could only tame it by turning it into a subject of their paintings.
Giovanni Bellini
Young Woman with a Mirror
1515
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Mirrors not only allow us to control beauty, they also reflect it simultaneously from all sides. Thus, painting aims to surpass all the other arts including sculpture and even poetry.
Giovanni Bellini’s late work in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna may have inflamed Titian’s competitiveness. Like Bellini’s beauty, Titian’s “Young Woman at her Toilet” seems to be lost in thought while gazing at her own reflection; but she is not holding the mirror herself: she is being attended to by an admiring suitor standing in her shadow. Whose reflection is she gazing at in the mirror? Her own or his? Here, the artist is sounding out visual connections and pictorial limitations.
In another picture, the young woman has turned the mirror to face the viewer: it reminds us all of the transience of life.
Titian
Vanitas
c.1520
Munich, Alte Pinakothek
© bpk I Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
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Semi-nude deities on earth
The celebrated masters and their patrons literally elevated women to the heavens - their inamoratas were disguised as classical deities or the lovers of gods. A great favourite was Flora, the goddess of flowers. Bartolomeo Veneto and Titian produced very different but equally exciting masterpieces.
Titian
Flora
c.1517
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi
© Galleria delle Statue e delle Pitture degli Uffizi, su concessione del Ministero della cultura
Bartolomeo Veneto
Flora
c.1520
Frankfurt, Städel Museum
Creative Commons, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Giorgione
Portrait of a Young Woman (‘Laura’)
1506
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Giorgione’s Laura is the epoch-making first in a long line of “belle donne veneziane”. By baring her breast, the painter depicts the moment a marriage is sealed. The bride showed her consent to the proposed union by opening her heart.
Bernardino Licinio
Portrait of a Woman revealing her Breast
1536
Bergamo, Private Collection
© Private Collection
Bernardino Licino’s painting too depicts this moment of agreeing to a promise of marriage. The remarkably individual portrait captures both the official and a very intimate moment of the union.
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United forever
In love for five centuries
and still together
Love brings us together, lovers may end up becoming spouses. But love can also be accompanied by suffering – when it ends or your lover is taken away from you.
Bordone
The Lovers
1525/30
Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera
© Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Bordone’s Lovers depicts the moment rings are exchanged in front of a witness, not a “ménage à trois”. Licinio captures the exciting moment the marriage covenant is sealed: overcome by emotions, the groom takes the bride’s hand, and she, to show her consent, opens her heart and uncovers her breast.
Bernardino Licinio
Young Woman with Her Groom
c.1520
Paris, Galerie Canesso
© Galerie Canesso, Paris
Giovanni Cariani
Young Woman with Old Man
1515/16
St Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum
Pavel Demidov © The State Hermitage Museum, 2021
The picture of an old man and a young woman is probably based on a now-lost composition by Titian. The youthful beauty was long identified as a muse inspiring an artist. However, unequal couples are a traditional and popular subject, a warning against deviating from the accepted moral value canon. Sex workers and sex fiends, adultery and greed are thematized tongue in cheek.
Music can spice up lovemaking. Music as a catalyst for love has long been a subject in painting, and it repeatedly appears in Titian’s compositions. A good example is “Venus with an Organist” . Harmonious sounds become a symbol of the hoped-for erotic union.
Titian
Venus with an Organist and Cupid
c.1555
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
© Archivo Fotográfico. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Singers performing together are another way of depicting love. Here, Tullio Lombardo is helping a young couple to get in the mood.
Tullio Lombardo
Young Couple
1505/10
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
The young woman clutching the portrait of a man, which thematizes his absence, remains enigmatic. We cannot really tell if theirs is but a temporary separation or if he has died. But the composition bears eloquent witness to the ability of painting to replace an absent lover.
Bernardino Licinio
Portrait of a Woman Holding Her Husband’s Potrait
1525/28
Milan, Castello Sforzesco
© Comune di Milano, tutti i diritti riservati
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The embodiment of virtue, courage and
devotion: heroines and holy women
Biblical and mythological women as models
Lorenzo Lotto
Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia
1530/33
London, The National Gallery
© The National Gallery, London
Lorenzo Lotto’s Portrait of a Woman is informed by “Lucretia” and confirms how the Roman heroine’s character and attitude were considered exemplary. Perhaps she and the sitter shared a first name, a popular choice in Venice at the time.
Valour, devotion and determination combined with chastity, virtue and humility are the characteristics of these sitters celebrated in countless paintings. Their stories may differ but they share one thing: their beauty. Because at the time a beautiful body also symbolised a beautiful mind.
Lucretia
The story of Lucretia proved a popular subject in painting. Lucretia committed suicide after she was raped by Lucius Tarquinius, the son of the last king of Rome, because she wanted to save both her own and her family’s honour, and for many centuries she was regarded as the personification of virtue.
Titian repeatedly returned to her story: in an early work he depicts her committing suicide, but a few decades later he focuses on the drama of the unfolding rape.
Because punishment of the rapist (Tarquin) resulted in the fall of Etruscan royal dynasty and the proclamation of the Roman Republic, Lucretia’s depiction also functioned as a political subject, epitomizing the moral foundations of the Venetian Republic.
Titian
Lucrecia and her Husband
c.1515
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Titian
Tarquin and Lucretia
1570-1576
Vienna, Akademie der bildenden Künste
© Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Paolo Veronese, too, depicted Lucretia taking her own life. But unlike Titian, who focused on the drama of Lucretia and her husband, he chose to portray her alone, in her final moments, shortly before she fatally pierces herself with her dagger.
Veronese
Lucretia
1580/83
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
© KHM-Museumsverband
Judith
Women can also commit “male” acts and are celebrated for their valour. When a foreign army laid siege to her hometown, Judith did not hesitate but made plans to save it.
The beautiful widow visited the enemy general Holofernes in his tent, charmed him and made him drunk before killing him with his own sword and cutting off his head. Thus, Judith was able to preserve her people from being slaughtered or enslaved. Veronese’s Judith is pensive, she has just decapitated Holofernes and is still clutching his severed head. Her sumptuous clothes and precious jewellery set off her (for Holofernes) literally fatal beauty.
Veronese
Judith
c.1580
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Salome
Judith has always been depicted in ways very similar to Salome, Herodias’s beautiful daughter. John the Baptist had publicly castigated Queen Herodias for her depravity.
The mother then instrumentalized her daughter to kill him, and Salome performed a sensual dance for King Herod to force her stepfather to agree to John’s execution. Only after the saint has been decapitated does she realize what she has done: triumphantly but already somewhat apprehensively, she is displaying her trophy to the viewer.
Palma il Giovane
Salome
1599
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Susanna
Beautiful Susanna was taking a bath in her garden when two lecherous elders accosted and forced her to have sex with them. As judges they had the power over life and death.
After she refused their vile advances they accused her of adultery condemning her to death. Just in time, however, the Prophet Daniel managed to prove her innocence, and the two liars are executed.
Tintoretto
Susanna
c.1555/56
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Tintoretto depicts Susanna drying herself after her bath; her beautiful nude body is exposed less to the voyeuristic elders than to the viewer.
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene, her long hair falling over her shoulders, her ecstatic gaze directed heavenwards, is among Titian’s most successful depictions of female saints. The master loved this composition and painted several versions of it.
Legend has it that he died clutching one of them. It is a highly sensual image of the saint, who lived as a penitent ascetic, praying for God’s forgiveness for her sins.
Titian and Workshop
Penitent Magdalene
c.1565
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Creative Commons, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
The beauty of the female protagonists runs like a common thread through all these stories.
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Sex object and goddess
Men writing about women
Sixteenth-century Venice was a centre of printing and publishing - a media revolution in the early modern era comparable to the disruption caused by digitalization today.
Content was reproduced faster and became available to a wider audience. A leading proponent in Venice was the publisher Aldus Manutius: he printed the works of classical authors for a highly educated target audience interested in ancient art and culture. He also published contemporary works in colloquial Italian, the “volgare”, reaching an even wider market.
Titian (attributed)
Portrait of a Man (Pietro Bembo?)
1515/20
Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie
© Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie –
Photographie Nicolas Waltefaugle
For women – of all classes – it became easier to participate in the poetic discourse and to establish themselves as poets.
Their texts, which criticize contemporary misogynistic attitudes and behaviour, clearly touched a nerve and document women’s new social status. A closely-spun network connected humanists and poets (male and female), poet-courtesans and Venetian painters. Titian was one of them.
Pietro Bembo is regarded as a leading Renaissance scholar and wordsmith. Bembo collaborated with Manutius, and with the latter’s support published the poems of Petrarch and Dante.
He helped establish vernacular Italian („volgare“) as the language of culture. Bembo’s Gli Asolani (“The People of Asolo”), a copy of which is on show in the exhibition, was one of the most widely read love treatises in the Renaissance.
Titian
Benedetto Varchi (1503–1565)
c.1540
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Benedetto Varchi, a humanist and art theoretician from Florence, commissioned his portrait from Titian during his sojourn in Venice. Nonchalantly leaning against a column, he clutches an open miniature book of Petrarch’s love poems – a small and cheap “petrarchino”; they were Aldo Manuzio’s most successful invention and a precursor of modern paperbacks. The central theme of many of the poems in Petrarch’s Song Book (Il Canzoniere) is his love for Laura, and they celebrate an ideal of beauty that lived on through the following centuries and inspired countless painters and sculptors.
Titian
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556)
c.1527
Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel
© Kunstmuseum Basel, Schenkung der Prof. J.J. Bachofen-Burckhardt-Stiftung, Foto: Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin P. Bühler
Pietro Aretino and Titian were close friends. The celebrated writer and satirist, who called himself “il divino” (“the divine”) and whose sharp tongue was feared by powerful people throughout Europe, vigorously promoted Titian and his paintings; the artist, in turn, portrayed him repeatedly. The portrait in Basle is perhaps the earliest document of their friendship. Aretino’s Ragionamenti, the “sensible dialogues” of two courtesans, are rightly famous. Written in a coarse, true-to-life vernacular, they are regarded as precursors of pornographic literature.
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Women writers, poets and
poet-courtesans ensure that both they
and women in general have a voice
».. and, of course, Adam the first man was created in the fields near Damascus, while God created the woman in paradise on earth, a reflection of her greater excellence.«
Moderata Fonte (1555-1592)
Alessandro Bonvicino, gen. Moretto
Salome (Tullia d’Aragona, c.1510–1556)
c.1540
Brescia, Fondazione Brescia Musei
© Archivio fotografico Civici Musei di Brescia
Unlike of their male colleagues, there are but few painted portraits of the period’s numerous female authors, poets and poet-courtesans. Instead, we have to rely on prints.
In Venice, more and more of the women writing poetry came from bourgeois families. Their biographies are diverse. Some lived like nuns, remained unmarried until late in life, were widowed or so-called “honourable courtesans”; contrary to what we might presume today, the latter’s self-portrayal and presentation was comparable to that of elegant ladies, they hosted literary salons and socialized with artists, noblemen and members of the clergy. Male patrons helped them to publish their works. Self-assured and witty, they demand a new perspective on women.
»Women are called ›donne‹ because they are like a divine gift (dono celeste), without which there would be nothing either beautiful nor good.«
Moderata Fonte (1555-1592)
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The splendid world of myths
Renaissance artists and their patrons regarded history painting as the apex of great art.
Titian
Venus and Adonis
1555/57
England, Private Collection
© Private Collection
Titian painted so many variations of some of these compositions, especially those depicting Venus and Adonis, that today we encounter them in museums all over the world. His works also informed the mythological paintings produced by his contemporaries: Tintoretto, Bordone and especially Veronese.
Titian was particularly famous for his depictions of classical myths.
The unrivalled dramaturge of colour imbued these bodies with a radiant brightness and embedded them in an atmospheric chiaroscuro from which white, red and blue stand out most strongly. Women’s varied roles, from powerful goddesses to nymphs who fall victim to Jupiter’s desires, are brought to life in varied, fascinating narratives.
The loves of the gods – painted poetry –
competing with poets
Titian created the Poesie for King Philipp II of Spain. They are painted poems inspired by classical antiquity.
In his accompanying letter, Titian explains the reasons behind his choice of subjects, which suggests he invented the compositions and selected their subject matters for purely artistic reasons. He also produced variations, which he then presented to other rulers. Titian was not only an artist commissioned by a patron, but also a humanist and writer.
Most of the subjects are taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses or the writings of other classical authors. In each of his compositions, Titian expertly chooses the moment in which the story is heading for its dramatic climax: Venus’s vain attempt to prevent Adonis from setting off with his hounds on what will be his final hunt. Jupiter penetrating the walls of the tower to visit, in the shape of a shower of gold, his lover Danae.
Titian
Danae
c.1545
Naples, Museo di Capodimonte
© bpk | Scala - courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali
Veronese
Rape of Europe
c.1578
Venice, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
Foto Matteo De Fina 2019 © Archivio Fotografico -
Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
Paolo Veronese’s monumental “Rape of Europa” comes from the Doge’s Palace in Venice. Disguised as a magnificent white bull, Zeus abducts the beautiful princess and brings her to the continent that still bears her name.
In Venus’s realm
The goddess of love represents youth,
beauty and fecundity
The punishment of Cupid may be the result of the god’s naughtiness because he had, against his mother’s expressed wishes, fallen in love with Psyche. As punishment, his mother removed his instruments of power: Cupid is crying over the loss of his bow and arrows.
Tintoretto
Venus, Vulcan and Mars
c.1555
Munich, Alte Pinakothek
© bpk I Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Tintoretto’s ironic depiction of Venus and Mars’s divine adultery – with the latter hiding under the bed to escape the wrath of Venus’s cuckolded husband Vulcan – shows how much Venetian artists enjoyed devising and executing such subjects.
Titian
Venus Blindfolding Cupid
c.1565
Rome, Galleria Borghese
© Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali – su concessione della Galleria Borghese
Roman
Aphrodite Kallipygos
2nd cent. CE
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
© Su concessione del Ministero della Cultura - Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Foto: Giorgio Albano
Titian
Nymph and Shepherd
1570/75
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
© KHM-Museumsverband
Lambert Sustris
Venus and Amor
1548/52
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Stéphane Maréchalle
Veronese
Mars and Venus
1570/89
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Open Access program, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Allegories
Only Titian’s allegory for the ceiling of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice has survived. Titian was actually a member of the jury charged with choosing the artist commissioned to produce these allegories.
His depiction of a woman clutching both a book and a scroll is generally identified as either an allegory of wisdom or of history.
Titian
La Sapienza (“Wisdom”)
c.1560
Venice, Biblioteca Marciana
© Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
The ravages of time
Giorgione
La Vecchia (The Old Woman)
c.1506
Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia
© G.A.VE Archivio fotografico –“su concessione del Ministero
della Cultura - Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia”
This composition tells of time and the process of aging; note the scrap of paper inscribed “COL TEMPORE” (with the passage of time) in the old woman’s hand, her half-senile expression, her matt hair, her open mouth with but a few tooth stumps, and especially the tired, woeful rather than accusing manner in which she faces the viewer. This turns her into a moralizing allegory of transience.
Titian
Clarissa Strozzi (1540–1581)
1542
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
© bpk I Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,
Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt
Titian captures Clarissa tenderly feeding her cimabella, a ring-shaped breakfast pastry, to her pet dog, suddenly looking up as though hearing her name called. Despite her childish naturalness, the painting includes numerous clues to her future as a bride and wife, thus outlining her entire life: her dress looks like a wedding dress, the relief featuring squabbling cupids references future dangers of falling in love. But right now, she is still enjoying this phase of her life, her charming childishness and the love she feels for her lapdog, allowing Titian to turn this little girl into a lovable personification of human nature.
Titian
Triumph of Love
1543–1546
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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