The writer discusses the reception and interpretation of Titian's painting The Ages of Man (1512–15) (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh). The painting's depiction of nature and figures only makes sense when viewed in relation to the theme of the pastoral. A deeper understanding of the work lies not in the illustrative, literal meaning of symbolic painting, but rather in the intellectually challenging allegory of the pastoral, whose complex meaning would be open only to the humanistically educated.
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