Himmlische und irdische Liebe (nach Tizian),

1864

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

114,4 x 276,3 cm

Displayed

Sammlung Schack Saal 11

Department

19. Jahrhundert

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

11429

Acquisition

1864 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München

Citation

Franz von Lenbach, Himmlische und irdische Liebe (nach Tizian), 1864, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/jpxegmOGJ7 (Last updated on 19.06.2023)

The elegance and compelling physical presence of the two women personifying sacred and profane love, and their integration in the landscape, made Titian’s painting a first high-water mark in his artistic development. Jacob Burckhardt wrote in 1855 that works like this ‘exude the kind of visionary magic that can be described only in terms of similes and should perhaps not be desecrated at all by the use of words’. Schack was deeply impressed by the quality of Lenbach’s copy, placing it on a par with the original.