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Art History: 3 Nudes

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Background information and images for L6th Critical & Contextual Studies (ACC)
3 reclining nudes.
Giorgione, Titian and Manet

Manet, Olympia. Olympia - Edouard Manet | Musée d'Orsay. Titian, Venus of Urbino (article) | Venice. 1024px-Edouard_Manet_-_Olympia_-_Google_Art_Project. Giorgione. Giorgione (Italian: [dʒorˈdʒone]; born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; c. 1477/8–1510[2]) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over 30. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work. The resulting uncertainty about the identity and meaning of his art has made Giorgione one of the most mysterious figures in European painting.

Together with Titian, who was slightly younger, he is the founder of the distinctive Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting, which achieves much of its effect through colour and mood, and is traditionally contrasted with the reliance on a more linear disegno of Florentine painting. Life[edit] The little known of Giorgione's life is given in Giorgio Vasari's Vite. The painter came from the small town of Castelfranco Veneto, 40 km inland from Venice. Works[edit] Attributions[edit] Giorgione, The Tempest (video) | Venice.

Venus of Urbino. Description and history[edit] The Venus stares straight at the viewer, unconcerned with her nudity. In her right hand she holds a posy of roses whilst she holds her other hand over her genitals. In the near background is a dog, often a symbol of fidelity. The painting was commissioned by Guidobaldo II della Rovere, the Duke of Urbino, possibly to celebrate his 1534 marriage. It would originally have decorated a cassone, a chest traditionally given in Italy as a wedding present. The maids in the background are shown rummaging through a similar chest, apparently in search of Venus's clothes. The model for the painting has been identified as Angela del Moro, a highly paid courtesan in Venice and a known dining companion of Titian.[1] The argument for the painting's didacticism was made by the late art historian Rona Goffen in 1997's “Sex, Space, and Social History in Titian’s Venus of Urbino".

Inspirations[edit] References and sources[edit] References Sources Berrson, Robert. Venus of Urbino by Titian at Uffizi Gallery Florence.