Sacred and Profane Love, c.1515 by Tiziano Vecellio Titian
Canvas Print - 9497-TTV
Location: Galleria Borghese, Rome, ItalyOriginal Size: 118 x 279 cm
Giclée Canvas Print | $49.98 USD
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"Sacred and Profane Love" will be custom-printed for your order using the latest giclée printing technology. This technique ensures that the Canvas Print captures an exceptional level of detail, showcasing vibrant and vivid colors with remarkable clarity.
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Painting Information
Titian’s "Sacred and Profane Love," painted around 1515, is a visual puzzle wrapped in luxurious color and texture. Two women, alike in beauty but different in almost everything else, sit atop a grand sarcophagus. On the left, a woman draped in shimmering silver - her dress an almost physical weight of luxury and status - seems pensive. Her gown catches the light in a way that only Titian could master, the play of texture almost tangible. Opposite her, a nude woman - effortlessly relaxed and holding a burning lamp - embodies a kind of divine serenity, draped loosely in a scarlet fabric that only enhances her flesh’s warmth.
And then there’s the little cupid in the center, who leans over the stone sarcophagus as if trying to stir up some mischief in the water beneath him. The carved reliefs on the stone show scenes that feel ancient and mythic, like they’ve been there for eternity. All this happens against a sweeping, sunlit Italian landscape that gives the scene both depth and a kind of pastoral calm.
As for the colors, the palette is as lush as you’d expect from Titian. The contrast between the cold, almost ethereal silvery dress and the warm, earthy reds of the nude’s drapery is striking. Titian's handling of light is simply luminous, giving each figure a sense of presence, a weight. The composition feels almost theatrical, but with a mystery at its heart - are these two women the same person, split between sacred and profane, or is there something else at play?
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