Titian Flashcards
Titian’s real name?
Period?
Vecellio Teziano
1488-1576
Where were Titian’s works particularly prized?
Madrid and Ferrara (where Bacchus and Ariadne was originally based)
Who was Bacchus and Ariadne painted for and when?
Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara for his ‘alabaster chamber’.
1520-22
What works inspired Bacchus and Ariadne
A scene from mythology of Roman poet Ovid. Metamorphoses inspired hundreds of other artists.
What significant change in subject matter does Bacchus and Ariadne Show?
Move from religious to secular subject matter. This is one of the great legacies of Italian Renaissance Art.
Who were Bacchus and Ariadne?
Greek god of wine, revelry and carnal consumption.
Daughter of Cretan king Minos
Sum up the story of Bacchus and Ariadne.
- ariadnes father Minos built labyrinth.
- Theseus comes to Crete to slay the minotaur
- she falls in love. Suggests string to find path out.
- Theseus deserts her on island of Naxos.
- Bacchus finds and falls in love.
- his seductive charms win her. (Promises her the heavens as wedding gift)
- she becomes constellation in sky. (8 stars of Corona Borealis (northern crown) in painting)
What does Ariadnes stance say about the painting?
- Her comtraposto stance indicated her surprise and fear at the cheetahs (originally leopards but Alfonso has cheetahs in his menagerie.)
- some say this half-turn also signifies pleasurable curiosity at the rabble-some group.
What significance has the man with snakes in Bacchus and A?
What does the Loacoon depict?
Direct citation of Ancient Greek sculpture Laocoon.
Inspiration for more or less all the Renaissance painter of bel-classical scenes after excavation and display in Vatican 1506.
- Loacoon, Trojan priest. And his sons attacked by giant serpents.
Who is Silenus in Bacchus and A?
Chubby Older member of drunken rabblein the background.
What is the significance of the urn and the decapitated head of stag?
Show that this is actually a dangerous crowd!
What is the artistic work for right of the painting?
And the left?
Sinister
Dexter
What has made Bacchus and A such a popular painting?
Why were critics angry after restoration in 1966?
Pure elegant poise of the leaping Bacchus.
They say subtly of Bacchus elan was destroyed.
