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Description: | This painting is an unfinished sketch depicting a nude Venus, seated and tying a ribbon in her hair. Viewed from behind, she turns to look at the viewer as if they were an intruder. An ambiguous figure sits on the ground looking up at her. Although previously identified as her crippled and cuckolded husband Vulcan, the god of fire, he more closely resembles a satyr. In the upper left Cupid appears to fall awkwardly from a stone balcony under which is a statue of a female nude in profile. The silhouetted eagle of Jupiter looks on from the upper right. | Subjects: | mythology (toilet of Venus) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Italian painter and draftsman, 1696-1770) Previously attributed to Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico (Italian painter, 1727-1804) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8504... | Go to resource |
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