“Bacchanalia” Titian

Titian. Bacchanal. Titian. Bacchanalia. 1523-1526

… I do not think there’s a world of yet another equally cheerful picture … she should have to give another, more expressive name, which would correspond to what it actually is – that is, moments of triumph …

… Men and women … they drink, have fun, talk, dance, luxuriate and given slumber. There seem to be ravnovozvyshennymi any natural acts. Almost in the middle of the picture the kid lifted the hem of his shirt, and satisfies the small need. At the top of the hill is illuminated by a naked old man, and in the foreground a nude Ariadne stretches, overcome asleep …

… Here dominates the fresh breeze, open space around them, woven of the sun gilded threads, and a lush canopy of trees hid the blue shadows. Someone from these people took with amphorae and goblets, elegant actuated silver and gold pitchers. Poured into the cups sparkling wine, sun glare. These people are drinking.

… And a shower falls … tension, eyes light up, and in the heads of mature fantasy. It turns out that life was not hostile to them that the human body in this beautiful golden-azure bucolic surroundings, that the souls of noble and lofty and full of goodness, and by doing so that each understands the other, while others understand it. They drink …

… Occur moments when it seems as if we merge with the whole world, my soul yearns to fill the visible space, and blesses us the idea of reigning in the world of harmony. … In such moments, our spirit as if picked up by invisible hands, they elevate it, and themselves cling to those moments that will certainly stop them … one of those moments, and Titian painted …

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