Sunday, March 20, 2005
TIZIANO - Portrait of a Man - What an Arresting Look
The portrait below is so different than almost everything else Tiziano (Titian) painted, it looks like what another painter would have painted. I like this one much better in any case.
I love the pose, it's a sideways profile, but then it seems like it isn't, because of the protruding bent arm and the slight turn of the head. I love the enormous quilted sleeve, but most of all, his look. To me, the man's look is unfriendly, measuring, to the point of being censuring, and he displays a certain antipathy towards the viewer. Then I look at it again and it seems the man in the painting has moved. He is now looking at me in a different way, more forlorn. I wonder what the real man thought of how he was portrayed.
Portrait of a Man
Titian
I love the pose, it's a sideways profile, but then it seems like it isn't, because of the protruding bent arm and the slight turn of the head. I love the enormous quilted sleeve, but most of all, his look. To me, the man's look is unfriendly, measuring, to the point of being censuring, and he displays a certain antipathy towards the viewer. Then I look at it again and it seems the man in the painting has moved. He is now looking at me in a different way, more forlorn. I wonder what the real man thought of how he was portrayed.
Portrait of a Man
Titian
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