Renaissance+Art

__ART CAPTION:__ Sacred and Profane Love 1514 118 x 279 cm Borghese Gallery, Rome

__ART DESCRIPTION:__ The remarkable consequence of this far to simple opposition has been that in whole spheres of Christendom Christian love has been far too unthinkingly accepted merely as the antithesis to Greek //eros// and thus unconsciously depicted and extolled in the contours and colours of the original. At a first glance it is not easy to tell which of the two figures in Titian's famous painting is supposed to be heavenly love and which is earthly. For the two sisters are so much alike.