WOMEN IN PAINTINGS |
Titian's paintings of the 1530s are marked by relative quiet,
pictorial subtlety, and colouristic refinement, as exemplified by
the Venus of Urbino (1538-1539, Uffizi, Florence), a revision
of Giorgione's Sleeping Venus (c. 1510, Gemäldegalerie,
Dresden). |
Venus of Urbino |
Titian's portraits, initially like Giorgione's, soon took on a greater expansiveness and more overt authority to become compellingly beautiful images of idealized masculinity (Man with a Glove, c. 1520, Louvre) or femininity (Flora, c. 1515, Uffizi).
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Background: The Death of Actaeon. National Gallery, London.