Today I went to the Titian exhibit at the High and it was absolutely beautiful. I thought it was interesting how Titian thought that sketches and drawings were a means to an end, so he never did much to keep them pristine like his paintings. That is why there were so few sketches in the exhibit, and what they did have were faded or slightly crumpled.
My favorite pieces were the Diana paintings. While I was there, there were high school classes visiting as well. The guide for their group asked if someone could tell a story as to what was happening in the painting. One girl suggested that they were getting ready for a wedding or fancy event. As it turns out, a man had just intruded on Diana and her nymphs, and Diana became furious. The painting was supposedly picturing the scene just before she changed the man's body into a stag and let him be ripped apart by his own hunting dogs. The other painting showed her fury when she found that one of her nymphs that was sworn to a life of chastity had become pregnant by Jupiter. Each painting there was based off of a religious figure or mythological figure, which I found incredibly interesting.
In the permanent collection, the High has a lot of statues that resemble traditional Roman and Greek statues of different gods, goddesses, and people, which were the subjects of many of Titian's paintings and sketches. Also, many of the paintings are similar in a way too, with many of the same subjects, especially the religious ones.
I thoroughly enjoyed this exhibit, and would like to go back on another day when there aren't a million loud high schoolers there.
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