Painting by artist Titiano Vecellio “Secular love”. The size of the picture is 97 x 81 cm, canvas, oil. It would be wrong to reduce Titian’s work only to chanting sensual enjoyment of life.
The images of Titian are free from any kind of physiologicalism, which in general was alien to the art of the Renaissance. The best images of Titian are beautiful not only physically, but also spiritually. They are inherent in the unity of feeling and thought, the noble spirituality of the human image.
The painting “Secular Love” has a second name – “The Life Vanity”; The picture is allegorical, one can say it has a philosophical meaning. Without a smile, a gorgeous beauty stares at us from the canvas, holding in her hands a mirror turned towards the spectator, in which a pouch full of coins is reflected on the embroidered tablecloth. Gold, selling love, money… What has value in this life and what sometimes a person is wasting his life?