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Venus and the Lute Player  1570

by Titian

Titian and his workshop painted the theme of Venus and a musician in multiple versions during the latter part of his career. Venus’s contours would be transferred to a new canvas and laid in by the workshop, varying the composition. In this majestic example, Titian fully painted the landscape as well as attended to the flesh tones of Venus, but other parts, such as the vio...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art