03 Works, The Art of War, Titian's Hamas soldier and a Gazan woman, with footnotes

After Titian

A Hamas soldier and a Gazan woman
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The scene unfolds with a striking composition, highlighting the contrasting emotions of the Hamas soldier and Gazan woman. The soldier stands tall, positioned slightly to the side, dominating the canvas and casting a shadow over the cowering woman. His gaze fixates on ground, filled with a mixture of hopelessness and hardened despair.

After Titian

The Hamas soldier supporting a Gazan woman
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The soldier is in his battle attire. His face, weathered and hardened by the cruelties of war, reflects a sense of weariness and resignation. Lines etched into his forehead convey the burden of his experiences.

After Titian

The soldier must return to the fight
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Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (c. 1488/90 – 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian, was an Italian (Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. 

Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of colour, exercised a profound influence not only on painters of the late Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western artists.

His career was successful from the start, and he became sought after by patrons, initially from Venice and its possessions, then joined by the north Italian princes, and finally the Habsburgs and papacy. Along with Giorgione, he is considered a founder of the Venetian School of Italian Renaissance painting.

During the course of his long life, Titian's artistic manner changed drastically, but he retained a lifelong interest in colour. More on Titian

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