Diego Velázquez’s ‘Venus’ reimagined the Goddess of Love like never before—here are three things you might not know about it:
turned convention on its head. The motif of the goddess caught mid primp
iconography for these scenes generally entails a nude Venus seated, looking at herself in a mirror, and adorning herself with jewels and ointments in a boudoir of great refinement. What’s more, she is almost always is blonde. Rather than a room of great splendor, this Venus appears in an artist’s studio, with crimson drapes pinned against a bare wall and a black sheet , seeming to shadow the line of her silhouette atop a couch or mattress. Instead of the voluptuousness of, say, Rubens’s Venus, here we see a slender more contemporary woman .
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