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Seven Punchinellos huddle under a sudden downpour, their hunched backs turned to us as ink bleeds into the damp paper. The umbrella’s ribs strain against the weight of rain, suggesting both shelter and futility—what does the lone figure without one carry instead?

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https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.573

@LauraJG

Gosh, how I wish I could get up to NYC this very moment to see this in real life!

I've only visited the Frick once, and I'm afraid I cannot recollect seeing this picture. I would be particularly keen to see the actual brushwork on the various fabrics and materials; the image here hints at Titian's mastery here, especially with regard to the fur, but nothing can beat seeing the real thing.

With Titian, as with Poussin, conventional wisdom insists that the late work is the great work; I've sometimes felt that this conventional wisdom implies that the early work is facile. I disagree with that implication, and would tender this portrait as evidence in rebuttal. There is so much that could be said about this picture and also so much to enjoy, not least the picture's affirmation and celebration of masculine beauty.

Thanks so much for posting this!

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Giambattista Tiepolo
An Allegory with Venus and Time
1754-58
Oil on canvas, 292 x 190 cm
National Gallery, London

One of my favourite pictures from London's National Gallery. I confess I often hold this picture in my mind's eye as a form of escapism -- an escape from strip malls, bloated SUVs, megachurches with fundamentalist PowerPoints punctuated by bad rock and extempore prayer, cargo pants,
presidential make up, the Hobby Lobby...

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"Unfaithfulness," Paolo Veronese, c. 1575.

Veronese (1528-1588) was a Venetian Renaissance painter, most famous for his extremely large religious, history, and mythology paintings. Along with Titian and Tintoretto, he's regarded as one of the three great Venetian painters of the time, and his work was eagerly sought by collectors during his lifetime.

This is one of a series of paintings done as "An Allegory of Love." Here we have "Unfaithfulness," sometimes called "Infidelity," the first of the four. Here the lady seems ready to go for the guy in pink...but in the second, "Scorn," it's the bearded man she looks on with contempt as he writhes in agony, and in the third, "Respect," he comes across her nude form again....but in the fourth, "Happy Union," she seems to be hooking up with the pink guy again. It's unclear if they're meant to tell a story, or just be a representation of different amatory experiences, perhaps in opposed pairs..."Scorn" vs. "Respect," and "Unfaithfulness" vs. "Happy Union." It's all up to interpretation.

From the National Gallery, London.

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