Round 14: Tossup 8
Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein and Walter Friedlaender debated whether a sculpted horse in this painting represented virginity. This painting, which Friedlaender suggested may have been inspired by Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, features an artwork within it that may depict Cain slaying Abel and Adam and Eve by the Tree of Knowledge. Several men hunt a hare in the background of this painting, which also shows a flock of sheep and a distant castle. A woman holds a metal bowl in this painting, next to another clutching a jar of burning incense. This painting, commissioned for Niccolò Aurelio’s wedding to Laura Bagarotto, depicts a putto dipping his hand in a sarcophagus between a woman in a white dress and a nude woman with a red robe. For 10 points, name this painting by Titian that contrasts two aspects of Venus. ■END■