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Titian executed this canvas depicting the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple between 1534 and 1538 for the Sala dell’Albergo of the Carità confraternity.
Responding to the setting, Titian’s long, rectangular composition acknowledges the tradition of earlier narrative painting cycles in Venetian confraternities.
In this work, the young Mary ascends the steps of the Temple of Solomon, as a crowd of spectators looks on. She is surrounded by a halo of light that signifies her divine nature,
for it has been painted to be so brilliant that it outshines the natural illumination entering from the windows of the room.
The masonry pattern and colors of the building just behind the Temple recall those of the Doge’s Palace, aligning the identity of that palace with Solomon’s as a palace of justice.
The classical torso and the old egg seller in the foreground represent the two worlds of pagan and Jewish antiquity that are about to be superseded by the new Christian era of grace.
On the left-hand side of the composition, the inclusion of portraits of the governing board of the confraternity and the giving of alms to the begging mother with a child in her arms are explicit references to the Scuola and its dedication to charity.
sauce… https://www.savevenice.org/project/presentation-of-the-virgin-in-the-temple
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