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- Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses inspired Titian to paint what he called poesie, or poetry in paint.
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Titian used the term ‘poesie’ for the paintings because he regarded them to be visual equivalents of poetry. Combining his talent as both artist and storyteller, Titian selected the stories' most dramatic moments; an unexpected and fatal encounter; a shameful discovery; a terrifying abduction; set in atmospheric, enchanted, landscapes.
Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses inspired Titian to paint what he called poesie, or poetry in paint. Here, Venus tries to stop her lover from departing for the hunt, fearing—correctly—that he would be killed.
- Poesies For Philip
- Danaë
- Venus and Adonis
- Perseus and Andromeda
- The Rape of Europa
- Diana and Actaeon
- Diana and Callisto
- The Death of Actaeon
Titian’s establishment as the one-to-watch among the upper echelons of Italian society reached a high point when he met with the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530. This propelled him into the imperial court and led to the royal commission of paintings from Ovid in the 1550s. Titian, in fact, offered the series of Ovidian poetry paintings to the ...
Danaë, an only child and a princess of Argos, faced a prophecy that foretold her son would eventually slay his own grandfather. To prevent this, Danaë’s father confined her. Nevertheless, the god Jupiter, known for his lust for mortal women, transformed into a shower of gold to be intimate with her. From this union, Danaë bore a child, Perseus, who...
The goddess of love (Venus, Cupid’s mightier mother) is the focal point of Titian’s next poesie. The mortal hunter, Adonis, is being accosted by nude Venus. In the background, Cupid can be seen peacefully sleeping, with his bow and arrows hung on a nearby tree. According to the myth, Venus’ has been accidentally stung by the arrow of love, causing ...
Swooping down from the sky the hero Perseus (yes, the very same son of Danaë) attacks a sea monster. The death of Andromeda was an order from the gods as a punishment for her mother, who had said she was more beautiful than Nereids. On the distant shore, her family watches the epic scene:
The best preserved of all of the Poesies is the Rape of Europa. It is another story of Jupiter (Roman equivalent for Zeus) consummating his desire for a female mortal in a changed form:this time a bull, instead of a shower of gold. According to the myth, Europa and her girlfriends were hanging about on the coast when a beautiful bull (Jupiter in di...
Diana can be found on the right-hand side; she is wearing a half-moon diadem and sitting on some luxurious velvet while having her feet washed. She shields her naked body from Actaeon. Titian makes her anger clear and contrasts it with the concerned expression of the nymph closest to the blundering intruder. The pool of water is still and reflectiv...
Callisto, a nymph, finds herself pregnant after the god Jupiter tricked and raped her. This presents a significant predicament, as she is a devoted follower of Diana, committed to maintaining her virginity. Her pregnant condition is brought to the attention of the chaste goddess Diana by the other nymphs. In response, Diana decrees Callisto’s exile...
Intriguingly, The Death of Actaeon never actually made its way to the king. For some reason or another, it remained in the artist’s studio until his death in 1576. In later life, Titian began to revise his own style, and we can see this change, such as a more liberal use of brush strokes, in this painting, which continues the story of Actaeon’s pun...
Titian's skill with colour is exemplified by his Danaë, one of several mythological paintings, or "poesie" ("poems"), as the painter called them. This painting was done for Alessandro Farnese, but a later variant was produced for Philip II, for whom Titian painted many of his most important mythological paintings.
Dec 3, 2020 · Titian’s mythological paintings for King Philip II of Spain, known collectively as the Poesie, have long been appreciated by scholars for their ravishing beauty due in equal measure to Titian’s mastery as a painter and to their seductive themes drawn from classical mythology.
Mar 9, 2020 · It sets out to reunite for the first time since the 16th century the six great poesie, Titian’s mythological paintings made in the 1550s and 1560s for Philip II of Spain: Danaë from the...
From 1553 he produced seven mythological paintings, all of which were rather more complex in their treatment of the fallibility of the human condition. Titian defined these paintings as poesie or “painted poems.” These took as their subjects themes from ancient mythology.
