Amor Sacro and Amor Profano by Titian

~ JezzieG

Title: Amor Sacro and Amor Profano
Date: 1514
Movement: Renaissance
Media: Oil on canvas
Current Location: Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy

In a pleasant landscape setting, two women drawn from the same model pose by a water trough where Eros is stirring the waters. Rich in its symbolism and iconography there is some disagreement among critics and academics to the pictures meaning. The most common theory is one woman is gowned for her wedding and is said to indicate carnal, physical love whilst the other is nude and seen as the simplicity and purity of spiritual love. Eros, at the centre, is symbolic the meeting point of spiritual and carnal desires.

Artist: Titian
Born: 1490, Pieve di Cadore, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Died: 27 August 1576, Venice, Italy

Titian was a painter and regarded as one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance, combining Mannerist and High Renaissance ideas to develop a style that is remarkably ahead of his time. His creativity dominated Venetian art and the city rivalled the artistic centres of Rome and Florence

Published by JezzieG

I am a freelance writer and poet and started writing after raising my two boys as a way of discovering just who Jez is. That is still very much an ongoing project but the journey so far has introduced me to many wonderful friends and fellow writers through an ever-growing love of poetry.