Full Description
This book offers nine new approaches toward a single work of art, Titian's Allegory of Marriage or Allegory of Alfonso d'Avalos, dated to 1530/5. In earlier references, the painting was named simply Allegory, alluding to its enigmatic nature. The work follows in a tradition of such ambiguous Venetian paintings as Giovanni Bellini's Sacred Allegory and Giorgione's Tempest. Throughout the years, Titian's Allegory has engendered a range of diverse interpretations. Art historians such as Hans Tietze, Erwin Panofsky, Walter Friedlaender, and Louis Hourticq, to mention only a few, promoted various explanations. This book offers novel approaches and suggests new meanings toward a further understanding of this somewhat abstruse painting..
Contents
List of Plates and Figures, 1. Introduction: Poetic License (Daniel M. Unger), 2. Love, Beauty, and the Human Body as a Reflection of the Divine (Valery Rees), 3. Amorosa visione: Titian's Allegory of Marriage and the Poetry of the Half-length Format (Mary Pardo), 4. The Arms and Armour of Titian's Allegory of Marriage (Karen Watts), 5. Un disio sol d'eterna gloria e fama: A Literary Approach to Titian's Allegory (Esthy Kravitz-Lurie), 6. Psyche, Venus, Ceres and Their Friends: Titian's Remixes (Paul Joannides), 7. Art and the Double Meaning of Reflection in Titian's Allegory of Marriage (Daniel M. Unger), 8. Titian's Allegory of Marriage as an 'Allegory of Peace' (Sara Benninga), 9. Vision and Touch in the Allegory of Marriage (Geoff Lehman), 10. Of Crystal Orbs and Divinatory Mirrors: The Vicissitudes of Pregnancy and Artistic Agency in Titian's Allegory of Marriage (Sergius Kodera), Notes on Contributors, Index.
