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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.
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 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 concept of Geminae Veneres or "Twin Venuses", a dual nature in Venus, was well developed in both classical thought and Renaissance Neoplatonism. In 1969 the scholar Erwin Panofsky suggested the two figures were representations of the 'Twin Venuses' with the clothed figure representing the 'earthly' Venus - (Venere Vulgare), while the other ...
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.
The painting was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte's sister, Queen Caroline Murat of Naples, [1] and was finished in 1814. [2] Ingres drew upon works such as Dresden Venus by Giorgione, and Titian's Venus of Urbino as inspiration for his reclining nude figure, though the actual pose of a reclining figure looking back over her shoulder is directly drawn from the 1800 Portrait of Madame ...
Venus Libertina ("Venus the Freedwoman"), probably arising through the semantic similarity and cultural links between libertina (as "a free woman") and lubentina (possibly meaning "pleasurable" or "passionate"). Further titles or variants acquired by Venus through the same process, or through orthographic variance, include Libentia, Lubentina ...
Venus Consoling Love; Venus Disarming Cupid; Venus Disrobing for the Bath; Venus Frigida; Venus of Poetry; Venus of Urbino; Venus Persuading Helen to Love Paris; Venus plays the Harp; Venus Verticordia (Rossetti) Venus Weeping for Adonis (Poussin) Venus with a Mirror; Venus with a Satyr and Two Cupids; Venus with Mercury and Cupid; Venus, Cupid ...