Allegory of Sacred and Profane Love
Michele Desubleo
$47.00
Select sizeSize guide
- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Allegory of Sacred and Profane Love, painted between 1665 and 1675 by the Flemish-Italian master Michele Desubleo, presents a richly allegorical meditation on the dual nature of love — one earthly and sensual, the other spiritual and divine. Working in Italy for much of his career, Desubleo absorbed the classicizing tendencies of the Bolognese school while retaining a Northern European sensitivity to texture and detail.
The composition juxtaposes personifications of sacred and profane love in a carefully balanced arrangement, their contrasting attributes and gestures inviting the viewer to weigh the competing claims of virtue and desire — a theme with deep roots in Renaissance Neoplatonic philosophy and famously explored by Titian nearly a century earlier. Desubleo's warm, luminous palette and graceful figural handling reflect the sophisticated classical revival current in seventeenth-century Italian painting.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Michele Desubleo |
| Year | 1665–75 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 59 x 76 1/2 in. (149.9 x 194.3 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque |
