Sister Wendy in Venice: Bellini, Titian and Giorgione.

Sister Wendy revels in the Renaissance. She visits La Serenissima, Venice in Italy, to enjoy works by Bellini, Titian and Giorgione. These are the details of the works included:

Madonna of the Meadow, Giovanni Bellini (The National Gallery London)


Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian (The National Gallery London)
The Madonna and Child Between St. Francis and St. Nicasius, also known as Castelfranco Madonna, Giorgione ( La Pala of the Cathedral of Castelfranco, Veneto, Italy)

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business with the envy of your it was
called seven missamma the most serene
city park because wealth from its trade
and slip from spices from the east
but even more because of the stability
of its government
and its artists flourished - they took
the northern invention of painting with
oils and brought to it their sense of
the mystery of the Orient Venice's great
gift of the story of painting was a
unique understanding of the weather
instruments of power and the glory of
subtleties of light
these were great geniuses edition
with his drama splendor
the mysterious gorge uni and the man
known as the father of the nation
painting
japani Bellini
Bellini's virgin in a meadow and it
sounds so tender and of course it is
and I looked with such pleasure at this
young girl sitting there with the light
cleaning on her white head gear and that
marvelous deep blue of her gown and the
pink underneath and then and it gives me
a shock every time on her left
is that a dead baby
no very pale but asleep and that shocked
that joke is exactly what bellini wants
to give you because that was how the
dead craft was laid on his mother's left
when he did die taken down from the
cross and this picture is foreshadowing
that and reminding you of that once
you've been alerted to the fact that
there's more here than just a pretty
image you begin to see all sorts of
meaningful details behind with a great
white bird fights with the snake the the
aggression that we meet with and the two
men in their country occupations those
dead end jobs in the slaver endless
monotony and behind them
the great castle the city of fear with
it walls protecting itself and its in
that world that the vergence it's not so
much in the murder on meadow like a
great blue marquee and it's all unified
all made one
both the little details and great figure
by light
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for years bellini held the position of
official painter to the Buddha's of
Venice
ductable the young man
who want to become the greatest artists
the city ever produced edition with a
product key and he knew it when he was
in his 20s he hoped to the city
authorities the morning to take over on
the venerable bellini as top office in
Vince
nothing stirred the imagination of the
brilliant newcomer more than the pagan
myths of the ancient world which the
Nissan's have revived
Dennis was a light with stories of the
old gods
Bacchus the god of wine and festivity
Apollo the god of music
Venus and bring to pee
young asians paintings of the ancient
rebels and trance to city whose phone
carnivals could go on exuberantly for
week
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this is the young Titian and he's most
wonderful
it's one of the great stories and myths
how Ariadne saved
Theseus from her father's hatred they
fled together and they spent the night
on the island of Max us and when she
woke up in the morning and you can see
she's just a worker and she isn't fully
dressed yet
she sees on the horizon the white sale
of her lover
he has abandoned her and it's in that
moment of intense anguish and despair
that suddenly he hears from the forest
the sound of music and the god Bacchus
comes leaping out from his chariot to
rescue her back as has come with all his
train of strange surreal creatures
somebody not on her world at all
in her world she's been betrayed but
there's something else there that
there's miracle there's hope there's
that other world that the dream world
the magic world would back us represent
he is the god of x SI after all
and that's what the paintings all about
that wonderful moment when suddenly
we're rescue of utter misery
- - joy the person hopelessly in debt
wins the lottery and you'll see that she
doesn't show any emotion at the moment
she's too
staggered by the wonder what has
happened and I think that Titian thought
a special empathy a especial lack mr.
himself in the way that young beautiful
figure leaps law is bigger to rescue his
beloved and he not only rescue her
takes it out of the humdrum into his
world of of wonder and excitement but
he twirled his hand and he makes a crown
of stars for her
and in a way isn't that what the artist
and saves us by taking us into the
magical world he inhabits 12 of these
finger and makes us start
young tichel had a rival who had he
lived longer might have taken the crown
for himself
Giorgianni every now and then
art takes a completely unexpected twists
and Georgie only with one of those
twists
he brought something new to painting
something we've never lost after now no
one had ever painted a picture of which
one couldn't be reasonably sure of what
the thing was but not with your journey
there's always an element of mystery
who is that soldier blue doing in the
storm
why is the gypsy woman naked we'll never
know
this is one of the most argued about
works in existence
your journey he is a bit of a mystery
himself
we know that he came from castelfranco
outside venice and it said that he
delighted in love for music and could
sing divinely but we really know
practically nothing about him he died
young
some say of the pig some sea of a broken
heart
it's fitting that one of his finest
paintings is in his hometown and was
commissioned after the untimely death of
a fellow townsmen material constanzo was
a young soldier who died of fever his
family asked your journey to paint an
altarpiece to go above his tomb
the figures look down
grieving the madonna and child and the
two saints from France's the manager
please
Lavallee a stand-in for young matale
before we go any further I must tell you
that I i love the so much i find it's
overwhelming that I'm doing it even
though it's got those naughty bits of
white stucco level it but in a way dish
is this proof that the picture needs
restoration isn't a bad thing because
restoration is all about time and lost
and this picture that you can never
explain that your journey is about time
and loss at first we just see postel
beauty from haunting sense of an
undisturbed world
then if you look closer you can see that
on this side
the time is shattered it's either been
shattered by time which shutters all of
us also been shattered by war and on the
other side there and that spring tide
meadow two young men are sitting talking
and from heads to four
they are armored these are two young
soldiers resisting the the forces that
destroy all human life and that's where
careful this does need to be careful to
protect yourself symbolized by the armor
was something georgia and he was an
intensely sensitive to but we're already
in this picture
it's to material to be heaven there's
the the floor and the throne
and the dentist will all but it's clear
enough the real world either which is
behind us and the phone is so
exceptionally high
it's a different in and out to world
that somehow coexist in a way we can't
quite explain
that's the special thing that George
journey brings its daringly new because
you can't explain that but it's it's
daringly right because we respond to it
to the portrayal of it
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