Titian's Allegory of Marriage : : New Approaches / / ed. by Daniel Unger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Benninga, Sara,; Joannides, Paul,; Kodera, Sergius,; Kravitz-Lurie, Esthy,; Lehman, Geoff,; Pardo, Mary,; Rees, Valery,; Unger, Daniel M.,; Watts, Karen,
• HerausgeberIn: Unger, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 37
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates and Figures -- 1. Introduction: Poetic License -- 2. Love, Beauty, and the Human Body as a Reflection of the Divine -- 3. Amorosa visione: Titian’s Allegory of Marriage and the Poetry of the Half-length Format -- 4. The Arms and Armour of Titian’s Allegory of Marriage -- 5. ‘Un disio sol d’eterna gloria e fama’: A Literary Approach to Titian’s Allegory -- 6. Psyche, Venus, Ceres and Their Friends: Titian’s Remixes -- 7. Art and the Double Meaning of Reflection in Titian’s Allegory of Marriage -- 8. Titian’s Allegory of Marriage as an ‘Allegory of Peace’ -- 9. Vision and Touch in the Allegory of Marriage -- 10. Of Crystal Orbs and Divinatory Mirrors : The Vicissitudes of Pregnancy and Artistic Agency in Titian’s Allegory of Marriage -- Index