Issue 6 · Summer 2021

Art Worlds

Love, Envy, and Revenge

Brian Allen 

 Miguel Falomir, Sheila Barker, Javier Moscoso, and Alejandro Vergara. Mythological Passions: Titian, Veronese, Allori, Rubens, Ribera, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velázquez. Museo Nacional el Prado, 192pp., €32 cloth. 

Mythological Passions

Mar 2, 2021-Jul 4, 2021

Titian: Women, Myth & Power

Aug 12, 2021-Jan 2, 2022

The most splendid art event of 2020 and, I suspect, 2021 is having a most circuitous time getting itself before the eyes of a large public. The event is the reunion—after 450 years—of Titian’s six “poesie” pictures, the word used in Italian painting at the time to describe works that delight the senses and make poetry an aesthetic experience.

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This article appears in Athenaeum Review Issue 6 (Summer 2021), pp. 102-114. Download a PDF copy.
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