Titian’s Assumption Of The Virgin: Piety In Renaissance Italy
By Venice White.
The celebrated Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecelli, known in English as Titian, was the creator of the powerful altarpiece named Assunta, or ‘Assumption of the Virgin’ . From its unveiling in 1518, it continues to reside in the high altar of one of the most prominent cathedrals in the city of Venice; the Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari…
Negotiating Death: Problems with depicting the corpse in contemporary art.
By Maya Love.
At the most primal level, the human corpse is visually shocking. The corpse presides over the history of art, manifested in the didactic symbolism of memento mori, the Baroque glorification of the grotesque, the Surrealist obsession with the exquisite corpse and most recently, the depiction of the corpse that has emerged in contemporary art…
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