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Madonna of the Cherries - Titian 1518...
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Like the "Gypsy Madonna" (Inv.-Nr. GG 95), Mary, the infant Jesus and the young John the Baptist are composed into a triangular form between the balustrade and the cloth. The triangle symbolizes permanence, validity and harmony. Yet the dynamic gestures of the children proffering cherries to the Blessed Virgin threaten to unravel the delicate equilibrium of the painting. When going over the painting a second time, Titian adds the two saints Joseph and Zacharias, lending the composition added composure and stability.
TITIAN
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 27 August 1576, better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth.
Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante's Paradiso), Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.
During the course of his long life Titian's artistic manner changed drastically but he retained a lifelong interest in color. Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of polychromatic modulations are without precedent in the history of Western art.
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