Tiziano Vecelli - Venus in front of the mirror 1553-1554
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Venus in front of the mirror 1553-1554
124x105cm oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art Washington, Washington DC, United States
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From National Gallery of Art Washington:
At the core of Renaissance art is the revival of the classical past, and in his Venus with a Mirror, Titian revealed both his appreciation of antiquity and his remarkable modernity. During a sojourn in Rome he wrote that he was "learning from the marvelous ancient stones" that were being unearthed daily in the city. Indeed, he based the gesture of the goddess, her hands held to her breast and lap, on a famous Roman statue of Venus that later belonged to the Medici.