A masterpiece by Titian from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna on display in Bergamo

After the loan of Caravaggio ’s The Musicians from the Metropolitan Museum in New York, theCarrara Academy offers a new opportunity for the public and the city of Bergamo, thanks to the generosity of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, which has granted until Oct. 26, 2020, the exhibition of Titian ’s (Pieve di Cadore, c. 1490-Venice, 1576) masterpiece Mars, Venus and Cupid (painted between 1555 and 1560).

The work, already featured in the exhibition Titian and Caravaggio in Peterzano, will be visible in a new arrangement within the exhibition itinerary of the Bergamasque museum, in room 18, in dialogue with the masters of Venetian painting of the second half of the 16th century. Mars, Venus and Love is among the finest examples of sixteenth-century lagoon culture that is particularly sensitive to the secular themes of which Titian is a master in the naturalness of gestures and in the drafting of a soft, rosy painting. In the canvas Mars and Venus unite in a sensual embrace, while Love (in flight with quiver, arrow and bow) watches over them smugly. An episode taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, of which Titian, however, changes the setting, placing the characters in a lush landscape, typical of the Venetian figurative tradition.

For all information you can the official website of the Accademia Carrara.

Pictured: Titian, Mars, Venus and Love (c. 1555-1560; oil on canvas, 97 x 109 cm; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)

A masterpiece by Titian from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna on display in Bergamo

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