Pastoral Concert

Pastoral Concert
Pastoral Concert
Artist Titian or Giorgione
Year c. 1510
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 118 cm × 138 cm (46 in × 54 in)
Location Louvre Museum, Paris

The Pastoral Concert is an oil painting attributed to one of the Italian Renaissance masters Titian or Giorgione. It is located in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

History

The painting was originally attributed to Giorgione, but modern critics assign it more likely to his pupil Titian, due to the figures' robustness which was typical of his style.[1] It is also likely that Giorgione (whose works included elements such as music, the pastoral idleness and simultaneous representation of the visible and invisible) began the work, and then, after his death in 1510, it was finished by Titian.[1]

The work was owned by the Gonzaga family, perhaps inherited from Isabella d'Este: it was later sold to Charles I of England and then to French banker Eberhard Jabach; he in turn sold it to Louis XIV of France in 1671[2]

The painting was also attributed to Palma the Elder and Sebastiano del Piombo.[3]

In 1863, French painter Edouard Manet painted his Le déjeuner sur l'herbe after watching the Pastoral Concert in a visit to the Louvre museum.[4]

Description

The painting portrays three young people on a lawn, playing, while next to him a standing woman is pouring water from a marble basin. Both the women are naked, aside from two light vests; the two men, who are talking, are dressed with contemporary costumes. In the wide background is a shepherd and, among the vegetation, a far landscape.

The subject was perhaps the allegory of poetry and music: the two women would be an imaginary apparition representing the ideal beauty, stemming from the two men's fantasy and inspiration. The woman with the glass vase would be the muse of tragic poetry, while the other one would be that of the pastoral poetry. Of the two playing men, the one with the lute would represent the exalted lyric poetry, the other being an ordinary lyricist, according to the distinction made by Aristotle in his Poetics. Another interpretation suggests that the painting is an evocation of the four elements of the natural world (water, fire, earth and air) and their harmonic relationship.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Fregolent, Alessandra (2001). Giorgione. Milan: Electa. p. 111. ISBN 88-8310-184-7. 
  2. ^ "Le concert champêtre". Louvre Museum website. http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=22879&langue=fr. Retrieved 9 May 2011. 
  3. ^ Milan, Francesco (1969). L'opera completa di Tiziano. Rizzoli. p. 93. 
  4. ^ a b Zuffi, Stefano (2008). Tiziano. Milan: Mondadori Arte. p. 32. ISBN 978-88-370-6436-5. 



Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Pastoral — Pastoral, as an adjective, refers to the lifestyle of shepherds and pastoralists, moving livestock around larger areas of land according to seasons and availability of water and feed. Pastoral also describes literature, art and music which… …   Wikipedia

  • pastoral — pastoral, ale, aux [ pastɔral, o ] adj. et n. f. • v. 1200, rare av. XVIe; lat. pastoralis, de pastor; cf. pâtre, pasteur 1 ♦ Didact. ou littér. Relatif aux pasteurs, aux bergers. La vie, les mœurs pastorales. Chant pastoral. ♢ Vieilli Qui a un… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Pastoral pipes — Infobox Instrument color1=#FFD700 color2=#FFEC8B name= Pastoral Pipes names= Union pipes classification= *Aerophone *Wind *Woodwind *Bagpipe range= 2 octaves related= *Border pipes *Northumbrian pipes *Uilleann pipes *Scottish smallpipes… …   Wikipedia

  • Magnetic Hill Concert Site — Eagles concert held at Magnetic Hill was the largest event on their tour for 2008 with over 45,000 fans in attendance Magnetic Hill Concert Site is a live music venue in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is one of the largest music venues in… …   Wikipedia

  • Promenade concert — Although the term Promenade Concert is normally associated today with the series of concerts founded in 1895 by Robert Newman and the conductor Henry Wood – a festival known today as the BBC Proms – the term originally referred to concerts in the …   Wikipedia

  • Giorgione — Infobox Artist bgcolour = name = Giorgione imagesize = caption = A purported self portrait of Giorgione, represented in the guise of David. birthname = Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco birthdate = c. 1477 location = Castelfranco Veneto, Italy… …   Wikipedia

  • Le déjeuner sur l'herbe — The Luncheon on the Grass French: Le déjeuner sur l herbe Artist Édouard Manet Year 1862–1863 Type Oil on can …   Wikipedia

  • Édouard Manet — Manet redirects here. For other uses, see Manet (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Claude Monet, another painter of the same era. Édouard Manet portrait by Nadar, 1874 Birth name …   Wikipedia

  • painting, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present.       Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment (but see also drawing for discussion of depictions in …   Universalium

  • Clothed male, naked female — Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1800 Clothed male, naked (or nude) female (on the internet sometimes abbreviated to CMNF) is a genre of erotica featuring one or more nude women and one or more clothed men. Such a scenario is described as a sexual fantasy… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”