ISSN 2411-0795
ISSN 2411-0795
Keywords: visual art, religious painting, Renaissance, Venice, Titian, picture, stile, iconography, subject-matter, composition, pictorial space, "Annunciation"
Marchenko N.A. The Image of the Annunciation in the Works of Titian. Questions of Iconography and Style. // Theory and History of Art. 2023. N 3/4, p.134–155
This article investigates the evolution of the depiction of Annunciation in the works by Titian. It studies the evolution of this subject matter which occupied a large span of time in the course of fifty years. It was shown which concerns played a crucial role by the choice of the iconographical scheme in the pictorial treatment of this subject.
The method of the iconographical research as well as the one of the stylistic analyses were chosen as the basic methods of scientific investigation. They helped to find out which works of Italian Renaissance art were instrumental in the process of formation of Titian's ideas as the main sources of inspiration. Besides, the use of these methods contributes to consider the style of the artwork analyzed.
The main findings of this article consist in the fact that the new scientific data were obtained on what kind of artworks of the Renaissance artists influenced the treatment of religious iconography in Titian's paintings and in which way this influence was perceived and transformed by him.