< equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Titian, La Bella, 1536
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- 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
- often referred to as the "Lady in the Blue Dress"
ReplyDelete- 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
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