Pastoral Symphony

Titian (and or Giorgione), Pastoral Symphony, 1508-1510. High Italian Renaissance

1) Titian finishes the figures of this painting after Giorgione's death, while also becoming the first official painter of Venice

2) A pastoral landscape that deals with themes set in a rural setting 

   - the two new females are juxtaposed by the two fully clothed male figures in the background

   - the bodily forms were voluminous and fleshy, painted directly onto the canvas as opposed to the geometrically perfected nudes of Michelangelo

3) The best interpretation of this painting is a visual representation of a pastoral poem (meant to evoke the mood and motif of pastoral poetry)