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Title


    • de: Schlummernde Venus
Artist

Giorgione

Year


  • de: um 1508-1510
  • en: c. 1508-1510
Technique


    • de: Leinwand
Dimensions


    • de: 108 × 175 cm
Current location


    • de: Gemäldegalerie,
    • de: Dresden
Source

The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Permission

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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.


Creator

Name: Giorgione

Alternative names:

  • de: eigentlich: Giorgio da Castelfranco

Date of birth: 1477/1478

Location of birth:

  • de: Castelfranco (Veneto)

Date of death:

  • de: vor 1510-10-25
  • en: before 1510-10-25

Location of death:

  • de: Venedig

Work period:

Work location:

  • de: Venedig
Public domain The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The entire collection is copyrighted by The Yorck Project and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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