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Now in the 20th century people began to wonder
而20世纪，人们开始思考
Just who is Sacred and Profane Love in this
《神圣之爱与世俗之爱》里的人物是谁
And perhaps this painting really is telling us a story
这幅画可能讲述的是一个故事
And they began to search classical texts to see
人们开始搜寻古典时代文本
If they couldn't identify these two scintillating beauties
看看能否查找出这两位
who sit on either end of this antique sarcophagus that has been turned into a fountain
坐在古典石棺改造成的一座喷泉两端，两位艳光照人的美人的身份
And they came up with all sorts of ideas
他们提出了各种各样的想法
Perhaps I mean nobody really doubted that the nude one was Venus
或许这位裸女是维纳斯，这应当是没有疑问的
Everybody more or less thought yes that's Venus
大家或多或少都认为这就是维纳斯
But could it possibly be Venus telling Medea to take Jason back into her bed?
但是否可能是维纳斯正在劝说美狄亚重新让伊阿送上她的床？
Could it be Venus talking to Helen during the Trojan War?
或者是特洛伊战争期间，维纳斯在跟海伦聊天？
My favourite is could it be Jupiter disguised as Venus talking to Callisto
我最喜欢的版本是，或许是朱庇特伪装成维纳斯的样子在和卡利斯托聊天
People also tried to find contemporary texts
也有人在提香同代的文本中查找
Perhaps it was from Boccaccio
可能出自薄伽丘的作品
Perhaps it came from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili which was published in 1499 in Venice
也可能出自1499年于威尼斯出版的《寻爱绮梦》
And perhaps that Pola the heroine of that talking to Venus at the tomb of Adonis
也可能是此书女主角帕拉，在阿多尼斯墓边跟维纳斯谈话
But none of those stories actually fit
但实际上这些故事都说不通
So more recently scholars have decided
最近，学者认定
Perhaps the one dressed in white is really a portrait Laura Bagarotto
穿白裙子的女人可能实际上是罗拉·巴伽罗托
Perhaps she is talking to Venus who is giving her marital advice
她可能正在同维纳斯交谈，爱神正给她提供婚姻建议
Or perhaps she can't see Venus because Venus is a goddess
又或者她无法看到维纳斯，因为维纳斯是女神
And we can see Venus but she can't
我们能看到维纳斯但她看不到
The only problem with that
这种说法的唯一问题就是
Is one the two figures look very very much alike
第一，这两个人物看起来特别相似
And two the figures look very very much like almost all the women that Titian painted
第二，提香笔下几乎所有的女性人物看起来都极为相似
whether they were in religious paintings or whether they were in secular subjects at this time
不管是在宗教画中，还是这个时期的世俗画中
It's a kind of idealized beauty
那是一种理想化的美丽
And not only that
不仅是这一点
If that's Laura she certainly isn't dressed as a widow
还有如果说那是罗拉，那她真是穿得一点也不像寡妇
She has the long flowing hair that a maiden would have
她有着少女般垂坠的长发
Because after women were married they tended to put their hair up in a snood
因为当时女性结婚后，她们倾向于将头发扎束成簪
Another suggestion made in 1939 by Erwin Panofsky
另一种看法是由埃文·潘诺夫斯基在1939年提出的
was in fact what you are looking at in Sacred and Profane Love
在《神圣之爱与世俗之爱》中我们所看到的
Were the twin Venuses that Plato had talked about?
这两个女人事实上会不会就是柏拉图讲过的孪生的维纳斯呢？
Which were revived during the Renaissance by Neo-Platonic writers
文艺复兴时期新柏拉图派的作家又提到过孪生的维纳斯
Such as Ficino and Pico della Mirandola
如费奇诺和皮科德娄·米兰多拉
But in order for those to be the Neo Platonic Venuses
为了证实这种新柏拉图式维纳斯的观点
Panofsky made us a do a very strange kind of flip-flop
潘诺夫斯基提出了一种奇特的翻转手法
He made us say that rather than reading it from left to right
他认为画名不应从左向右读
And as the title goes Sacred and Profane Love
而应反向读作《世俗之爱与神圣之爱》
