Eduardo Mendoza, Tiff cats, Madrid, 1936:
Anthony left alone reviewed the pictures hanging on the walls. Most were hunting scenes, including a powerful call your attention. Death of Actaeon happens to be one of the most important works of Titian's maturity. The table now beheld was a beautiful copy of the original, that Anthony had never had occasion to contemplate, though he had seen many films and had read enough to recognize the work immediately. The issue came from several sources, although the best known was Ovid's Metamorphoses. Going hunting with friends, Actaeon is lost and wandering through the woods when it surprises Diana was stripped of his clothes to swim in a pond. Irritated, the goddess transformed Actaeon into a stag and torn to pieces by his own dogs. Without that seems relevant, Ovid gives the name of all dogs that made up the pack of Acteon, and in many cases their parents, indicating their origin and lists his attributes. The accumulation of detail just to make more distressing a massacre in which All participants were known but not recognized and can communicate. Ovid's account that the first to reach his master become deer are two dogs that were lagging behind but had taken a shortcut. This tragic event, says the poet, do not blame anyone, because it is a crime to have taken the wrong road. Other versions say that Actaeon had wanted to seduce the goddess, by word or by force. Minimize other causes, no one can spot a deity, with or without clothes, and come out unscathed. Titian represents the scene of an incoherent: Diana and still keeps his clothes instead of cursing Actaeon looks as if about to throw an arrow or would have already launched, the transformation of the unfortunate Hunter has not just begun, still retains its body of man, but he has left a stag's head disproportionately small, this does not prevent dogs and attack him with the ferocity that would put in a regular game piece, though rigor should have recognized the smell of his master. At first glance, these failures could be attributed to the precipitation or the unwillingness of the artist in a commissioned work. Titian, however, painted at the end of his life and his execution has invested more than ten years. At his death, the painting was still held by the painter. Passed through several hands and visited several countries to end up in a private collection in England. The copy Anthony was now examining a somewhat smaller than the original and had been made, as could be inferred in the late nineteenth century, by a competent scribe. How he came to the hall of that palace in Madrid was a mystery to solve when it was interrupted by a voice behind him.
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