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Titian | An Idyll: A Mother and a Halberdier in a Wooded Landscape, 1505-1510

This painting is informed by the bucolic poetry of such classical sources as Virgil’s Georgics and Eclogues and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
The subject of printed, painted, and drawn images, landscapes of shaded groves, musicians, shepherds, and languid nymphs were a quintessentially Venetian genre in the early sixteenth century.

Titian | An Idyll: A Mother and a Halberdier in a Wooded Landscape, 1505-1510 | Harvard Art Museums

The most celebrated, and perhaps most enigmatic, of these is Giorgione’s Tempest, which shows the same configuration of a seated woman and a standing figure found here.
The purpose, subject, and meaning of these evocative paintings is still unclear, leading some scholars to argue that they inaugurated a new genre of landscape painting, one based on secular rather than sacred sources. | Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum

Questo dipinto è informato dalla poesia bucolica di fonti classiche come le Georgiche e le Egloghe di Virgilio e le Metamorfosi di Ovidio.
I soggetti di immagini stampate, dipinte e disegnate, paesaggi di boschetti ombrosi, musicisti, pastori e languide ninfe erano un genere tipicamente veneziano all'inizio del XVI secolo.

La più celebre, e forse la più enigmatica, di queste è la Tempesta di Giorgione, che mostra la stessa configurazione di una donna seduta e di una figura in piedi qui trovata.

Giorgione | The Tempest, 1508 | Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Lo scopo, il soggetto ed il significato di questi dipinti evocativi non sono ancora chiari, portando alcuni studiosi a sostenere che inaugurassero un nuovo genere di pittura di paesaggio, basato su fonti secolari piuttosto che sacre. | Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum


Tiziano Vecellio (Italian High Renaissance painter, ca.1485-1576), known as Titian in english, one of the greatest painters of the world, and in particular the typical representative of the Venetian school, was commonly called during his lifetime "Da Cadore", from the place of his birth, and has also been designated "Il Divino".