I’m trying to understand how the Symbolists’ use of mythological figures differs from how the Renaissance painters used them. I see a figure like Orpheus in a Moreau painting, and it feels like a private, emotional cipher, but in a Titian it seems to serve a more straightforward narrative from the classical source. Is that just my impression, or is there a concrete artistic principle at work in that shift?
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What principle explains the shift from symbolists to Renaissance myth figures?
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