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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Titian's Venus of Urbino, 1538. Uffizi, Florence, Titian's famous earlier reclining nude. After the original in Naples, where Cupid is to her right, he is replaced by an elderly maid, holding out a cloth or dish to catch the gold coins spilling down from an explosion of colour in the sky which represents Zeus. [16]
Titian paintings on display in the Museo del Prado (from left to right: Danaë and the Shower of Gold, The Worship of Venus, Bacchanal of the Andrians, and Venus and Adonis) Although the best surviving examples of the Farnese or two-dog type appear to be at least as late as the Prado type, it may be that this was the original composition.