RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK

April 19, 2020

RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK - Titian

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton

Titian's ‘Pietà’ (1575–1576); Oil on canvas; 153 in × 138 in; Location Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

In 1576, Renaissance master Titian died of the bubonic plague. One of his last paintings, Pietà, is on loan to the COVID-19 closed National Gallery in London. Week 5 of today's plague in Indiana ended with 545 deaths and 10,641 confirmed cases, and like London, we're shut down. However, there is good news too. Like millions of other Americans, we're eating healthier and we lost 20-lbs each. Like Titian, we're doing the things we can control. Collecting prints online is another act of control, and that's why Titian's Pietà is our art of the week.

Image: Detail from Titian, Self Portrait, 1566. Madrid, Prado © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

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