Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Titian, La Bella, 1536


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Artist History/Biography :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvAkBKy8h6Y&feature=related

  • This is an anonymous portrait commissioned by the Duke of Urbino
  • It is linked to the debate of ideal beauty
  • It is a non-narrative painting the maintains artistic conventions
  • The dark dress adds to the dark/light contrast in the painting
  • The jewelry marks her social status and marks the body
  • The painting is not situated
  • can paintingg represent ideal beauty?
  • Ideal beauty becomes a synechdoche for painting
  • Ideal beauty reference to Petrarch's Laura
  • The poem showed ideal love as unattainable

1 comment:

  1. - often referred to as the "Lady in the Blue Dress"
    - non-narrative, doesn't speak to any particular person
    - dress/clothing/jewelry as markers of status, but also construct the personal identity as well
    - ideal beauty becomes the subject rather than the portrayed individual
    - lyric/poetic idea of the woman: representations cant capture the soul
    - della Porta physiognomy: relation of the human face to animal
    - interiority reflected on the exterior

    George

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