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Sacred and Profane Love will, because of the star, retain the interest, but will not make a lasting impression. Full Review | Jan 11, 2022.
Sep 11, 2020 Full Review EH Staff Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Sacred and Profane Love will, because of the star, retain the interest, but will not make a lasting impression.
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- Helen Dunbar
- William Desmond Taylor
- Drama, Romance
The title comes from Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love, a notoriously ambiguous painting about which clothed or naked women depict which type of love. In the novel, Murdoch also repeatedly unsettles the reader whether Harriet and Blaise Gavander’s 19-year marriage or Blaise’s nine-year clandestine affair with Emily is a sacred relationship.
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- Iris Murdoch
- An Artwork Shrouded in Mystery
- Symbols and Hidden Meanings
- Alternative Interpretations
There’s a lot of mysterious stuff going on here. At first glance, the painting might just look like another portrait of two lovely ladies, with a pastoral background behind them. Look again.
We’re not sure. We have to rely on our knowledge of the painting’s symbols and hidden meanings to find out. And that’s because…
Cupid unlocks the meaning
The key could be Cupid, mixing water in the sarcophagus. Of course, that’s no baby between the two depictions of love (in this interpretation, two versions of Venus, goddess of love, herself): it’s Cupid. By mixing the waters in the well/sarcophagus, he might be suggesting that the ideal love is, in fact, a mix of these two kinds.
Neither sacred, nor profane
What if the painting isn’t even about sacred and profane love? In the 20th century, art historian Walter Friedländer argued that the painting wasn’t about these two types of love at all. He thought it showed Polia and Venere, two characters in Francesco Colonna’s popular 1499 romance Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (don’t worry, there won’t be a test on that name!). Another interpretation that’s much more simple… and makes a lot of sense? The painting could show the bride, Laura Bagarotto, herself,...
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May 17, 2012 · Sacred and Profane Love: large Print Arnold Bennett For years I had been preoccupied with thoughts of love-and by love I mean a noble and sensuous passion, absorbing the energies of the soul, fulfilling destiny, and reducing all that has gone before it to the level of a mere prelude.
