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Venus and Cupid (Sleeping Venus) is a circa 1626 painting by Artemisia Gentileschi in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. [1] Venus and Cupid is a depiction of a sleeping Venus, who reclines on a blue bed covering and rich crimson and gold tasseled pillow. She wears nothing except a thin wisp of transparent linen around her thigh.
The following is an incomplete list of works by Artemisia Gentileschi. Catalogue numbers abbreviated "WB" are taken from the 1999 publication by Raymond Ward Bissell, [1] and number abbreviated "MET" are from the 2001 publication by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other attributions are taken from Jesse Locker's The Language of Painting.
Venus and Cupid (Gentileschi), a c. 1625–1626 painting by Artemisia Gentileschi; Venus and Cupid, or Venus and Amor, a c. 1526–1528 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger; Venus and Cupid, a c. 1530 painting by Lorenzo Lotto; Venus and Cupid, a c. 1533 painting by Pontormo; Venus and Cupid, a c. 1554 painting by Lambert Sustris
Gentileschi's training in easel paintings, and perhaps the suspicion that women painters did not have the energy to carry out large-scale painting cycles, meant that the ambitious patrons within Urban's circle commissioned other artists. Venus and Cupid, c. 1625–1630, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. But Rome hosted a wide range of patrons.
Christ Blessing the Children is a painting by the Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi, depicting an episode from the New Testament. It hangs in the church of Sant'Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso in Rome .
One scholar pointed to the use of bright red, blue and green in the painting, which Gentileschi does not use elsewhere. However, the 2001 catalogue for the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, suggests the painting is by Gentileschi, and that it draws heavily on early devotional pictures by the artist Guido Reni. [1]
They were the only two biological children born from Richard and Oracene's marriage. Venus, now 43, is a tennis legend in her own right. She became a tennis pro in 1994 and in 2000, won her first ...
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