ARTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Lucretius, Radiography, Lightning
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Arth 120: week 12 lecture notes (nov 28, 2017) Or just standard beauty: features a dog similar to one in mother"s portrait. Is she a high class prostitute: can afford a nice home and maid-servants. Is it an allegory of marital value: chests in background = wedding gifts, dog = symbol of fidelity, asleep because it"s not reacting to husband walking in, pretty unlikely, didn"t have closets in renaissance, so everyone used chests! Is she masturbating: appropriate actions of a good wife believed masturbation before sex increased fertility. A modern goddess: do we have to decide, titian knew how to make a venus, as seen in sleeping venus purposely did not put. Is both venus and not venus: adds to animating tension, can be seen as a crude modern woman, or a goddess. In a venus-like pose: lots of realistic textures hair, small painting. Pietro aretino: friend of titian, famous poet who wrote intensely pornographic poems.
