MAKE A MEME View Large Image Giorgione 054.jpg Artwork Creator Giorgione Venere dormiente Sleeping Venus de Schlummernde Venus ca 1508 1510 oil on canvas cm 108 175 Institution Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister de Auf dem Gemälde befand sich urspr ein von Tizian gemalter ...
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Keywords: Giorgione 054.jpg Artwork Creator Giorgione Venere dormiente Sleeping Venus de Schlummernde Venus ca 1508 1510 oil on canvas cm 108 175 Institution Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister de Auf dem Gemälde befand sich urspr ein von Tizian gemalter Cupido der im 19 Jh übermalt wurde en This painting was done by Giorgione in approx 1509 c It was unfinished at the time of his death and the sky was later finished by Titian Titian also painted a similar Venus but it was not as agitated and unsettled as Giorgione's nude Obviously a painting with underlying erotic implications this can be seen by the Venus' raised arm the exposed arm pit a symbol of sexuality and also the blatant placement of her left hand The sheets are a silver colour a cold colour rather than a more commonly used warm tone and they are very rigid looking in comparison to Titian's or Velzquez's Venus' The landscape mimicks the curves of the nude and this in turn relates the human body back to natural organic object The Yorck Project 10 000 Meisterwerke der Malerei DVD-ROM 2002 ISBN 3936122202 Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH http //mail wikipedia org/pipermail/wikide-l/2005-April/012195 html Commons Licensing PD-old-100 PD-Art-YorckProject Sleeping Venus by Giorgione Subjective Database of Paintings
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