How To Read Paintings: Titian’s Assumption of the Virgin

An artwork of high drama and beauty

Facade of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice. Via Wikimedia Commons

Venice crumbles, Venice trembles. It’s waters hushed and gleaming. Tiny arched bridges cross over the narrow waterways like hooked fingers. Plants grow only in pots perched on balconies. The occasional pomegranate tree bears a fruit aloft, over a wall to a private garden.