Venus of Urbino
Titian (1538)
Titian’s Venus of Urbino turns the mythic goddess into an ideal bride, merging frank <strong>eroticism</strong> with the codes of <strong>marital fidelity</strong>. In a Venetian bedroom, the nude’s direct gaze, roses, sleeping lapdog, and attendants at a cassone bind desire to domestic virtue and fertility <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
