was in 1514 that was commissioned this beautiful picture to Titian, whose subject is still mysterious, but with two clearly identifiable characters: the female nude with the red cloak is draped Venus and the child leans Cupid is in the fountain.
The riddle is the figure of the woman richly dressed in an attitude of detachment and estrangement from the other two, as if absorbed in reflection on the mysteries of love.
There have been many interpretations, which has found more support for what he considered the painting an allegorical representation of love land and spiritual love, played by the two Venus, a celestial and spiritual, the other sensual and earthly.
The woman wearing the traditional white dress and bearing a crown of myrtle in her hair, a plant sacred to Venus and the symbol of conjugal love, which is gently initiated into the mysteries of the nude Venus, aided in his drawings from his companion, Cupid, that stirs the waters in the fountain.
The earthly beauty is a mirror of the heavenly contemplation and its prelude to perfection after death. Sacred love, cloaked in red, is shown in full light, while layman is bound by the love rich garments, set against a shadowy background: luministic balance, color and composition therefore it also has a precise symbolic meaning.
There is also another level of interpretation of the work, alluding to the conduct that a good wife must be taken in private and in society, flawless image that should give herself the wife of a devoted husband.
In bareback horse tamed and tied passione.Il should see the subjugation of the painting, considered a typical example of the mingling of pagan and Christian elements present in Renaissance culture.
the backdrop of the gentle landscape, the two images of women, creatures of flesh and blood, Titian and the opulent manner of the ideals of the time, seem very similar despite the diversity of both the allegorical meaning of both the pictorial representation.
different sides of the same coin, as, indeed, are the spiritual love of carnal love, appear to be similar in the face, in the long silky hair, bearing in physical features (exposed to Venus in the eye of the observer, hidden in the bride), in the golden brightness of the skin.
The background on which are placed the two figures is the juxtaposition of two different and opposing orography: left behind the love profane, there is a mountainous landscape, with an uphill path to direct path of a knight castle.
is read as a metaphor for a difficult path to take to get to virtue, that is won through hard work and sacrifices, or, alternatively, as an allusion to the character "secular" and "civil" lay of love, on the right, the landscape is flat , relaxed, dotted with grazing herds that evoke the bucolic utopias and in the distance you can see a couple and a church.
is opposed to the landscape left by binding to the religious and spiritual.
The colors refer, as there is a correspondence that refers also the philosophical correspondence: clear the drapery on the legs of Venus and clear of the bride dresses, red drape the mantle of the goddess of beauty and love and of women's red sleeve.
A split, symbolically, the two women, in the pictorial space and the conception of love, but also to join them at the bottom, and the allegorical meaning in the painting, there is Cupid, Eros, the holder and the beginning of mysteries love, and guidance through the junction between the two opposing concepts, the spiritual and carnal love, love, sacred and profane love.
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