Tag: Gaspare Traversi, Saint Margaret of Cortona

• 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 dog