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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.
While the trend in recent years has been to downplay complicated and obscure explanations of the iconography of paintings by Titian (and other Venetian painters), in this case no straightforward interpretation has been found, and scholars remain more ready to consider allegorical alternatives of some complexity, [7] [25] Titian would probably ...
Venus and Adonis - many different versions, with varying contributions by Titian himself. See one in the Prado above, and in Rome below. c. 1555: 106 × 133 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) Filippo Archinto, Archbishop of Milan: c. 1555: 118 × 94 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) Venus and the Lute Player: c. 1555–1565: 150 ...
Jupiter and Antiope, detail of Titian's Pardo Venus. According to the usual account, the painting was unfinished at the time of Giorgione's death. The landscape and sky were later finished by Titian, who in 1534 painted the similar Venus of Urbino, and several other reclining female nudes, such as his much repeated Venus and Musician and Danaë compositions, both from the 1540s onwards.
Titian's Venus of Urbino, on the other hand, was painted for the pleasure of the Duke of Urbino, and as in Botticelli's Birth of Venus, painted for a member of the Medici family, the model looks directly at the viewer. The model may very well have been the mistress of the client. Venus of Urbino is not simply a body beautiful in its own right.
Venus and Musician or Venus with an Organist and a Dog, Prado, c. 1550 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, with lute-player and Cupid, c. 1555–65 Gemäldegalerie Berlin, organist, dog and Cupid, 115 x 210 cm. Venus and Musician refers to a series of paintings by the Venetian Renaissance painter Titian and his workshop.
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 ...
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 ...