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This huge painting was commissioned from Gentile Bellini in 1504 as a decoration for the Scuola Grande di San Marco's reception room, one of the city’s most prestigious and powerful confraternities [1]. However, this painting was left incomplete upon…

Sacred and Profane Love was painted by Titian for the occasion of the marriage of Laura Bagarotto and the Secretary of Venice’s Council of Ten, Niccolò Aurelio, both of whom have their family’s coat of arms included in this piece. [1] This piece uses…

     Depicted here is the story of Apollo and Daphne. In the foreground is Apollo, half-naked and only covered by a shimmering green fabric--a feature Dossi incorporated from Titian’s work at the Ferrara court.¹ Following Apollo’s muscular body, the…

There have been several different interpretations of who the three female figures in this work are, and what they mean. At one point, it was identified as the Three Graces, but later the main figure was identified as Venus, blindfolding her son Cupid…

Upon the death of Gentile Bellini in 1507, it was prescribed in his will that his younger brother, Giovanni Bellini, would complete the work St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria commissioned by the Scuola Grande di San Marco [1]. Giovanni’s continuation…

In this painting, we see Saint Mark preaching in Alexandria. Giovanni and Gentile Bellini pull the focus onto the details of the landscape in multiple ways. First, with regards to the composition of the image, Bellini scattered objects of Venetian…

Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love made circa 1515 is an oil painting that was commissioned by Niccolò Aurelio, who was a secretary to the Venetian Council of Trent. It was made to commemorate his marriage with a young widow named Laura Bagarotto…

This early oil painting by Titian features a pastoral setting with a lake and luscious green rolling hills. To one side we can see a church with a grand steeple while the other side is flanked by a castle-like fortification overlooking a village. In…

Sacred and Profane Love is a piece done by Titian circa 1515 for Niccolò Aurelio [1]. Niccolò Aurelio, secretary of the Venice Council of Ten, commissioned this painting for his marriage to Laura Bagarotto [2]. The painting itself depicts two ladies,…

The first thing that viewer's eyes are drawn to is the larger than life man on the left hand side of the painting.  He is clothed in blue and light red cloth, with one arm on his hip and one outstretched towards the center of the painting.  The cloth…