New! Titian Preparing to Make His First Essay in Colouring by William Dyce – Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality

The subject of this painting is the artist Titian pondering his subject, Our Lady. He is considering, what is the proper way to color her? Titian (Early 1500s-1576) was an Italian Renaissance painter, one of the most important of his day and still world-famous even now. Contrary to post-modernist opinion, artists have always considered their relationship to the subject of their art, and the resultant work is a mingling of the two, artist and subject, kind of like a conversation, in which the viewer is included too. In this sense, art is also somewhat like prayer: Our prayers do not bounce off our ceiling, unheard, but involve us with the ears of Heaven, and those in Heaven respond in some way, and so our prayer is a mingling, a supernatural conversation. They in Heaven are the subjects of our contemplation and attention, or as shown in this painting, our art, and we are their subjects, in several senses of the word. William Dyce (1806–1864) did many paintings of Jesus, Mary, and the S