Titian S Pastoral Concert
Titian's Pastoral Concert
This great painting, hung in Paris's Louvre, is mysterious and perplexing, but has been one of the more influential paintings in the museum. It has been attributed to Titian, considered one the the greatest Venetian painters, as well as to one of his teachers in Venice, Giorgione. It is an oil painting and was completed in the year 1510.
The main figures are two men who are seated on the grass against a vast countryside setting. In the setting, the man on the left is dressed in the red clothing, which was worn by nobles at the time, and he seems to be playing a type of instrument with which I am not familiar. The man on the right is wearing a simpler brown costume more typical of peasantry. Off in the distance, there is another man entering the picture. He is a shepherd arriving with his herd.
The men are turned toward each other as they engage in conversation and seem oblivious to the other figures in the scene – two plump, nude women, who are perhaps the most mysterious and intriguing part of the painting. While the one on the left is in the process of pouring water from a glass pitcher into a well, the one on the right has just paused her activity of playing a flute while sitting right in front of the men. The fact that the females are not noticed, and seem rather comfortable in their lack of clothing, suggests that they are no ordinary women, but instead types of deities, or supernatural persons. They seem to be present yet invisible in the presence of the men at the particular moment being portrayed.
The bodies of the females may be considered overly plump by modern-day standards of an ideal body form, but likely they would have been considered ideal for the time. Titian seems to have even emphasized their curvy bodies by using curvy forms in the billowing trees and hills in the landscape. He also painted the females so that the viewer not only sees one from the front, but also from the back. The viewer therefore gets a
This great painting, hung in Paris's Louvre, is mysterious and perplexing, but has been one of the more influential paintings in the museum. It has been attributed to Titian, considered one the the greatest Venetian painters, as well as to one of his teachers in Venice, Giorgione. It is an oil painting and was completed in the year 1510.
The main figures are two men who are seated on the grass against a vast countryside setting. In the setting, the man on the left is dressed in the red clothing, which was worn by nobles at the time, and he seems to be playing a type of instrument with which I am not familiar. The man on the right is wearing a simpler brown costume more typical of peasantry. Off in the distance, there is another man entering the picture. He is a shepherd arriving with his herd.
The men are turned toward each other as they engage in conversation and seem oblivious to the other figures in the scene – two plump, nude women, who are perhaps the most mysterious and intriguing part of the painting. While the one on the left is in the process of pouring water from a glass pitcher into a well, the one on the right has just paused her activity of playing a flute while sitting right in front of the men. The fact that the females are not noticed, and seem rather comfortable in their lack of clothing, suggests that they are no ordinary women, but instead types of deities, or supernatural persons. They seem to be present yet invisible in the presence of the men at the particular moment being portrayed.
The bodies of the females may be considered overly plump by modern-day standards of an ideal body form, but likely they would have been considered ideal for the time. Titian seems to have even emphasized their curvy bodies by using curvy forms in the billowing trees and hills in the landscape. He also painted the females so that the viewer not only sees one from the front, but also from the back. The viewer therefore gets a