Tag: Venus

La Vénus couchée d’Urbino, d’après le Titien (1822)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Vénus couchée d’Urbino, d’après le Titien (Reclining Venus of Urbino, after Titian) 1822 Oil on canvas, 116 x 168 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere di Urbino 1538 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze    

Ritratto di un collezionista (c.1523)

Parmigianino (1503-1540) Ritratto di un collezionista (Portrait of a Collector) c.1523 Oil on wood, 89.5 x 63.8 cm National Gallery, London When listed in the inventory of Ranuccio Farnese in 1587 this picture was titled Portrait of a Priest, but there…

Venere, Adone e Cupido (c.1590)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Venere, Adone e Cupido (Venus, Adonis and Cupid) c.1590 Oil on canvas, 212 x 268 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Venus, the Roman goddess of Love and Beauty, is accidentally wounded by one of her son Cupid’s arrows,…

Venus and Adonis (mid-1630s)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…

Il giudizio di Paride (1583)

Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Il giudizio di Paride (The Judgement of Paris) 1583 Pen and ink on paper, 36.6 x 47.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York On his father’s death in 1540, the young Alessandro Allori was adopted by Bronzino…

Vénus victorieuse (1914)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vénus victorieuse (Venus Victorious) 1914 Bronze, 182.6 x 81.3 x 111.1 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Venus Victrix 1914–1916 Musée d’Orsay, Paris    

Venus Victrix (1914-1916)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Venus Victrix 1914–1916 Gum-lacquered patina plaster, 192 x 134 x 73 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Vénus victorieuse 1914 Clark Art Institute, Williamstown    

Vénus de Milo aux tiroirs (1936)

Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Vénus de Milo aux tiroirs (Venus de Milo with Drawers) 1936 Painted plaster with metal pulls and mink pompons, 98 × 32.5 × 34 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists…