I saw a painting (seems to be Renaissance) that depicts two women about to place an infant into a christening basin. the woman on the righ is nude. Any idea of the name of the painting or of who the artist is?
2007-02-04 15:57:05 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
It's definitely not Titian. I saw it in a documentary on "Sex and the Bible" on the History Channel.
2007-02-05 14:21:38 · update #1
Perhaps you are thinking of Titian's Sacred and Profane love.
Genre or domestic scenes were not painted in Italy at theis time . Domestic interiors were painted in Northern Europe as the reformation of the church , the protestants , did not like too many religious paintings in there churches.
Sacred and Profane love dipict two woman one dressed and the other naked and one might easily imagine that the naked one is the pfofane but she is actually the pure one with no need of earthly things wereas the other one is dressed in very beautiful clothes and so likes the fleeting attraction of material things : lok at all the jewels she is wearing . .
The baby is cupid . Nudity in thosedays was only the idea of things as i explained in another answer Manet's dejeuner sur l'herbe was so shocking having a real girl nude at a real picnic with dressed real men . The nude in the Sacred and Pfofane is not rea l she only represents an idea .
I am not a histoian but an artist
2007-02-04 17:42:49 · answer #1 · answered by shetland 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi there, I did an extensive google/wikipedia search for you but I am unable to come across anything like that. Can you remember where you saw it?
2007-02-04 16:13:32 · answer #2 · answered by Sorcha 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋