![]() This is due to the utilitarian development of our culture, which does not respect the values associated with the feminine. Today, Sacred and Profane Love would likely be misunderstood by many viewers, the Celestial Venus may be mistaken as the profane figure. Kenneth Clark observed that Plato’s concept “became an axiom of medieval and Renaissance philosophy,””because it symbolized a deep-seated human feeling.” The Celestial Venus satisfied more than sensual interests, the idealized figure represented the desire for the prelapsarian state or in political terms it represented a longing for utopia. Plato introduced the idea of two Venuses which reflect the heavenly and the worldly in his Symposium. ![]() It is generally accepted that the nude figure is (Oράνιος Αφροδίτης ) Celestial Venus, while the clothed woman is the (πάνδημον Αφροδίτης) Vulgar Venus. The enigmatic Sacred and Profane Love is one of the most beautiful Renaissance paintings by the Italian master Titian (died 1576).
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