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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.
Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will line up in the sky this week and could stay visible to the naked eye for a number of weeks. Skygazers will be treated to the sight from Wednesday all the way ...
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]
Throughout December, Venus will move higher and higher in the night sky, setting several hours after the sun. Because of how bright Venus will appear, some are referring to it as this year's ...
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.
The moon, Venus and Jupiter aligned in the evening sky. The crescent moon appeared below Venus and Jupiter on Tuesday, Feb. 21. A similar alignment will be visible on Thursday, Feb. 23.
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.
The northern lights are expected to be strongest between Friday, Jan. 31, and Saturday, Feb. 1. The best time to view them is from 10:00 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time.