Titian: Love, Desire, Death
An exhibition reuniting all six works from Titian’s ‘poesie’, a series of large paintings commissioned by Prince Philip of Spain, the future King Philip II, from the most famous painter in Europe at the time. Based on Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’, the mythological scenes capture moments of high drama and love, desire and death.
The original exhibition contained an entry hall with an interpretation video introducing the journeys each painting has made from their moment of creation up until the day of the exhibition; an introduction room with greyscale reproductions of the paintings; and a cinema – all building up to the final reveal of the room with the paintings themselves.
Location
The National Gallery, London UK
March 2020 – January 2021
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“My mind is bent to tell of bodies changed into new forms. Ye gods, for you yourselves have wrought the changes, breathe on these my undertakings, and bring down my song in unbroken strains from the world’s very beginning even unto the present time.“
Ovid’s first lines from the ‘Metamorphoses’
Translation by Frank Justus Miller, published in 1916
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