Description
Sleeping Venus portrays a reclining woman whose profile echoes the rolling hills behind her. The Dresden museum credits Giorgione as the painter and lists Titian as an additional artist, preserving the connection between the two painters rather than assigning the work solely to Titian.
The quiet figure and broad landscape form a closely related arrangement, with the contours of the body repeated in the surrounding terrain. The museum identifies the painting as the first large-scale female nude painted in Venice, distinguishing it from earlier small panels for wedding chests. Alongside works such as The Pastoral Concert, it offers a way to explore the meeting of figure and landscape in Venetian painting.
Collection reference: Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums.
Bibliography
Sleeping Venus (Giorgione), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sleeping_Venus_(Giorgione)&oldid=1094533476 (last visited Aug. 10, 2022).
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