{"id":9347,"date":"2011-05-14T03:04:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T02:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9347"},"modified":"2011-06-08T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T15:50:42","slug":"the-divine-eros-defeats-the-earthly-eros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/14\/the-divine-eros-defeats-the-earthly-eros\/","title":{"rendered":"The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/gemaldegalerie\/the-divine-eros-defeats-the-earthly-eros-122\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/baglione1.jpg\" alt=\"baglione1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another favourite painting receiving the Google Art Project high-res treatment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/gemaldegalerie\/the-divine-eros-defeats-the-earthly-eros-122\" target=\"_blank\">Giovanni Baglione&#8217;s picture<\/a> (also known as <em>Sacred Love versus Profane Love<\/em>) was painted circa 1602 as a riposte to Caravaggio&#8217;s provocative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/gemaldegalerie\/cupid-as-victor-116\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Amor Vincit Omnia<\/em><\/a>. Where Caravaggio showed Eros triumphing over worldly concerns Baglione gives us an image of religious propaganda which displeased the older artist. Salt was rubbed in the wounds when Baglione produced <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Baglione.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a second (and lesser) version<\/a> which puts Caravaggio&#8217;s features on the figure of the Devil. There&#8217;s an irony in this spat in the way that Baglione&#8217;s noble aspiration is subverted by erotic tension, the victorious angel shown happily astride a vulnerable and capitulating youth. If someone had pointed this out to Caravaggio he might not have felt so aggrieved.<\/p>\n<p>Both <em>Amor Vincit Omnia<\/em> and <em>The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros<\/em> are part of the Old Master collection at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smb.spk-berlin.de\/smb\/standorte\/index.php?p=2&amp;objID=35&amp;n=5\" target=\"_blank\">Gem\u00e4ldegalerie<\/a>, Berlin, where they can be viewed side by side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/gemaldegalerie\/the-divine-eros-defeats-the-earthly-eros-122\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/baglione2.jpg\" alt=\"baglione2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/04\/chiaroscuro\/\">Chiaroscuro<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/18\/angels-1-the-angel-of-history-and-sensual-metaphysics\/\">Angels 1: The Angel of History and sensual metaphysics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another favourite painting receiving the Google Art Project high-res treatment. Giovanni Baglione&#8217;s picture (also known as Sacred Love versus Profane Love) was painted circa 1602 as a riposte to Caravaggio&#8217;s provocative Amor Vincit Omnia. Where Caravaggio showed Eros triumphing over worldly concerns Baglione gives us an image of religious propaganda which displeased the older artist. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/14\/the-divine-eros-defeats-the-earthly-eros\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5,44,31],"tags":[226,2537,4854],"class_list":["post-9347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","category-painting","category-religion","tag-caravaggio","tag-giovanni-baglione","tag-google-art-project"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2qL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}