Sacred and Profane Love

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Sacred and Profane Love is a renowned early 16th-century oil painting by the Venetian master Titian, celebrated for its enigmatic allegory contrasting earthly and divine love.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Renaissance painting
painting
appliedToMaterial canvas
artForm easel painting
artHistoricalInterpretation Neoplatonic allegory
allegory of marriage
artist Titian
artSchool Venetian Renaissance
surface form: Venetian school
collection Galleria Borghese
surface form: Borghese collection
colorPalette rich Venetian colorism
commissionedBy Niccolò Aurelio
countryOfOrigin Republic of Venice
creator Titian
dateOfCreation early 16th century
depicts Cupid
allegory of sacred and profane love
fountain
idealized female beauty
landscape
two female figures
exhibitionHistory permanently displayed at Galleria Borghese
genre allegorical painting
hasInfluenced later allegorical painting
hasPart marble sarcophagus-like fountain
nude woman
richly dressed woman
winged Cupid figure
hasTitle Sacred and Profane Love self-linksurface differs
surface form: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano
iconographicTheme Cupid
surface form: Cupid at the fountain

profane love
sacred love
inception c. 1514
influencedBy Giorgio da Castelfranco
surface form: Giorgione
languageOfWork visual art
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Rome
locatedInTheCountry Italy
location Galleria Borghese
mainSubject contrast between earthly and divine love
materialUsed oil paint
medium oil on canvas
movement High Renaissance
notableWorkOf Titian
partOf Italian Renaissance art
significance key work of Venetian High Renaissance
masterpiece of Titian’s early career
subjectMatter love
virtue and sensuality
titleLanguage Italian

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Titian notableWork Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love by Titian originalTitle Sacred and Profane Love
subject surface form: Sacred and Profane Love
this entity surface form: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano
Sacred and Profane Love hasTitle Sacred and Profane Love self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano
Giovanni Baglione notableWork Sacred and Profane Love
this entity surface form: The Sacred Love and the Profane Love