Remembering Titian’s Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorie Graham
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Art or artists, Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, Painting or painters, Pictures, Saints or sainthood, Time, Eternity
The Poem
Although American, Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and received much of her education in Europe. “Remembering Titian’s Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence,” like many of Graham’s poems, comes from her Italian experience. The poem describes a religious painting by the Renaissance painter Titian, a painting that exists in two versions. In both versions, the painting’s foreground features Saint Lawrence, who reclines on a grill with a fire burning beneath him. In the earlier version of the painting (completed about 1557), the martyrdom is set in front of a temple façade,...
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