Men Are Dogs: Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen on Titian’s Poesie for Philip II

 
Titian, Diana and Callisto, 1556–59

Few faces to meet the public spotlight in recent years have more to tell about the mental mechanisms of male shame, impunity, and self-absolution than that of the furry brown-and-white-spotted Spanish pointer staring out of Titian’s Diana and Callisto, 1556–59. This dog has been a bad dog, as he seems to know. (I say “he” since, according to the visual logic of gender organizing the suite of pictures of which Diana and Callisto forms one-sixth, Titian’s ‘big dog’ simply can’t be a bitch.) ...”

 
“Titian: Women, Myth & Power,” 2021–22, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

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