Titian, the babe magnet

I took Harvey's artists on film class in 2012 and beyond learning a small amount about individual artists before exploring a filmmakers fiction interpretation of the artist life. An awesome class being both interested in film and fine art (not that film isnt a fine art), it was pretty obvious most influential artist in art history, have had lovers from where they draw inspiration from and directly influenced their art. It wasnt until the last class where Harvey brought to our attention that Titian may have been reusing the same modal or at least her figure to reproduce many of his images. It wasn't really until Titian where I was made aware of an artists relationship with their subject.

It may be a little immature but i think, the relationship between art and sexuality is important to recognized. So beyond acknowledging that some of Michelangelo's success could be attributed to taking out homosexual frustration on blocks of marble, i think we may have to credit a lover of Titians that allowed him to appreciated human form.

However in the conservative, male dominated era of the renaissance where giving into sexual urges or being victimized by the sinful female, it was probably pretty hard to keep your pimp hand strong with the ladies with the eye of god and everyone else in Venice watching. "By condemning the female object of desire, the male observer can both have his cheesecake and eat it it to." (Goffen) As an artist, whose job is to preform the private commissions of such condemned females may have made it a bit easier to both enjoy the sinful pleasures of a women, and conform the the social mores of the renaissance.