Female realm … Titian’s Diana and Actaeon, 1556-69.
"The women are the stars in Titian. Men barely get a look-in – and that look-in can be fatal. In his painting Diana and Actaeon, a young man out hunting has chanced on the goddess Diana and her court bathing naked in a woodland hideaway. As he pushes aside a soft pink hanging, he sees inside this female realm. His punishment is shown in another painting here: he will be turned into a stag and torn apart by his hounds. In Diana and Actaeon we see what he sees: women kneel and crouch, turn in horror and rush to cover. Titian’s brush shapes their flesh in ethereal yet weighty flicks of colour that capture form while being smokily suggestive. He called these paintings 'poesie', poetic pictures, with good reason, for they hover in a cloud of carnality and dreams. ..."
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‘An image of the Venetian sex trade itself’ … Danae, c1554–56.
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