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Simon Vouet was born on January 9, 1590, in Paris. [3] His father Laurent was a painter in Paris and taught him the rudiments of art. Simon's brother Aubin Vouet was also a painter, as also was Simon's wife Virginia da Vezzo, their son Louis-René Vouet, their two sons-in-law, Michel Dorigny and François Tortebat, and their grandson Ludovico Dorigny.
Venus is nude on a rococo canapé in a lavish interior whose drawn curtains reveal a garden in the background. Three small putti accompany the goddess and help her to tend to her appearance, one arranging her hair, another handing her a ribbon, and belowa third raises a silver platter with a pearl necklace.
Venus with a Mirror (c. 1555) is a painting by Titian, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and it is considered to be one of the collection's highlights. [ 1 ] The pose of the Venus resembles the classical statues of the Venus de' Medici in Florence or the Capitoline Venus in Rome, which Titian may have seen when he wrote that ...
The Rokeby Venus (/ ˈ r oʊ k b i / ROHK-bee; also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid and, in Spanish, La Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age.
Self-Portrait (Simon Vouet) T. Time Defeated by Love, Beauty and Hope; W. Woman Playing a Guitar (Vouet)
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A wreath of flowers identifies Hope, wearing a brown dress, who uses an anchor, while a naked and smiling Beauty, for whom Vouet is believed to have used his wife, Virginia Vezzi, as a model, helds a spear in his direction, and is also pulling out some of his hair. The scene has for background a rock and some trees while to the right extends a ...
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