This book offers nine new approaches toward a single work of art, Titian’s Allegory of Marriage or Allegory of Alfonso d’Avalos, dated to 1530/5. In earlier references, the painting was named simply Allegory, alluding to its enigmatic nature. The work follows in a tradition of such ambiguous Venetian paintings as Giovanni Bellini’s Sacred Allegory and Giorgione’s Tempest. Throughout the years, Titian’s Allegory has engendered a range of diverse interpretations. Art historians such as Hans Tietze, Erwin Panofsky, Walter Friedlaender, and Louis Hourticq, to mention only a few, promoted various explanations. This book offers novel approaches and suggests new meanings toward a further understanding of this somewhat abstruse painting.
Author(s): Daniel M. Unger
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 267
City: Amsterdam
Cover
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Poetic License
Daniel M. Unger
2. Love, Beauty, and the Human Body as a Reflection of the Divine
Valery Rees
3. Amorosa visione: Titian’s Allegory of Marriage and the Poetry of the Half-length Format
Mary Pardo
4. The Arms and Armour of Titian’s Allegory of Marriage
Karen Watts
5. ‘Un disio sol d’eterna gloria e fama’: A Literary Approach to Titian’s Allegory
Esthy Kravitz-Lurie
6. Psyche, Venus, Ceres and Their Friends: Titian’s Remixes
Paul Joannides
7. Art and the Double Meaning of Reflection in Titian’s Allegory of Marriage
Daniel M. Unger
8. Titian’s Allegory of Marriage as an ‘Allegory of Peace’
Sara Benninga
9. Vision and Touch in the Allegory of Marriage
Geoff Lehman
10. Of Crystal Orbs and Divinatory Mirrors: The Vicissitudes of Pregnancy and Artistic Agency in Titian’s Allegory of Marriage
Sergius Kodera
Index
Colour Plates
List of Plates and Figures
