
by Titian, 1555
Titian painted this sensuous Venus around 1555, when he was in his sixties and at the height of his powers. The goddess of love gazes into a mirror held by two cupids while a third drapes her in a fur-lined red cloak. The image became one of his most copied compositions.
Titian's mastery of flesh tones and textures is on full display. The warm glow of Venus's skin, the cool gleam of pearls and gold, the softness of fur and velvet are rendered with a freedom of brushwork that anticipates painters centuries later.
The painting was once owned by the Russian Tsars and hung in the Hermitage before it was sold to Andrew Mellon in 1931. It is now among the most prized Renaissance paintings at the National Gallery of Art.
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Giovanni Battista Moroni
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Edgar Degas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bronzino
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Berthe Morisot
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Other masterpieces from the Renaissance movement

Sandro Botticelli, 1476
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Florence

Sandro Botticelli, 1485
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Florence

Raphael, 1510
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Sandro Botticelli, 1482
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Florence

Raphael, 1511
Vatican Museums, Vatican City

Raphael, 1512
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Dresden

El Greco, 1614
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Leonardo da Vinci, 1500
Private Collection, Unknown
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