Tag: Dogs in Old Master narrative paintings

• The dog stays in the picture

  

  In an Old Master narrative painting, is a dog ever more than “just a dog”? The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes said dogs provide an honest bark of truth, and I think he may be onto something.

  Diane Tucker

  2023-05-02

  Art History, Everyday Life, Love and Relationships, Renaissance Art, The Shy Museumgoer

  Arts writer Diane Tucker, Dog symbolism in art history, Dogs in Old Master narrative paintings, Gaspare Traversi: Saint Margaret of Cortona, Pieter Bruegel: Hunters in the Snow dogs, Vittore Carpaccio: Saint Augustine in His Study, William Hogarth: The Lady’s Last Stake