Titian and the paradoxes of love and art in "Venus and Adonis"

• Autores: Aneta Georgievska-Shine
• Localización: Artibus et historiae: an art anthology, ISSN 0391-9064, Nº. 65, 2012, págs. 97-113
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Titian�s Venus and Adonis has long been praised both with regard to its affective complexity and its departure from the representational tradition of this story exemplified by narrative focus on the �leave-taking� of the young hunter from the bed of the goddess. Building upon seminal studies of scholars like Erwin Panofsky and David Rosand, this essay explores the artist�s emphasis on the vain reach of the goddess towards the leave-taking Adonis as a complex figuration imbued with allusions to several related stories within The Metamorphoses that establish the causes of Venus�s failure. What these recollections ultimately address is the topos of the Virgilian tempus fugit, as well as the inherent melancholia of the sublimation of desire into a work of art.