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Dresden Venus (c. 1510–11), traditionally attributed to Giorgione but for which Titian completed at least the landscape.. The Venus of Urbino (also known as Reclining Venus) [1] is an oil painting by Italian painter Titian, depicting a nude young woman, traditionally identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace.
Portrait of Francesco Maria della Rovere is an oil on canvas painting by Titian, from 1536-1538. It depicts Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. It is held now in the Uffizi, in Florence. Signed TITIANVS F.[ECIT], it forms a pair with the same artist's Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga della Rovere, Francesco's wife, also in the Uffizi. [1]
Titian's Venus of Urbino, c. 1534, Uffizi, largely the same pose in reverse Venus and Cupid with Dog and Partridge, mostly Titian's workshop, c. 1555, Uffizi. The painting is the final development of Titian's compositions with a reclining female nude in the Venetian style.
Near the Duchess, under the window, there is a small table covered with a green cloth, on which are a sleeping spotted dog and a golden clock crowned by a statuette. These are symbolic elements, also present in other paintings by Titian. The dog, for example, is almost identical to the one in the Venus of Urbino and symbolizes
Titian's reclining Venus of Urbino (1538), with a lapdog on the right, balancing the face on the left, is an erotic work. Although pre-figured by the Sleeping Venus (completed by Titian after Giorgione's death in 1510) Titian is credited with establishing the reclining female nude as an important subgenre in art.
One of the finest versions of the artist’s work, Venus and Adonis, is set to appear at Sotheby’s London auction on December 7. Renaissance masterpiece by Titian expected to fetch up to £12 ...