Sunday, September 7, 2008

A Titian


Venus and the Lute Player, 1565

3 comments:

Rachel said...

Lovely, lovely, lovely!

Formerly Ally McLesbian

S said...

Gosh. I pray every day that I don't grow up to look like her. (Please God, let me retain some muscle tone!)

Wendy said...

hahaha s - and that's why I walk 5kms a day and work out in the pool for an hour each day. I don't get thinner. I just get stronger. Muscle is heavier than fat, I'm told. I have a lot of travel walking to do.

And here I looked at her and thought how lovely she is - skinny, bony perfection is NOT the norm. Titian knew more about the softness of real beauty I think, than the portrayers of our beautiful, sharp-edged, angular women models of today's anorectic world.

Raphael's women and children, whether clothed or naked, are beautiful in their gentle softness of flesh, I think.