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Sleeping Venus (1899) by Claudio Rinaldi (Italian, 1852 – 1925), oil on canvas, 97 x 161 cm, Private Collection

#Sleeping Venus #Claudio Rinaldi #painting #my upload #oil on canvas #art #19th century #an Italian academic painting that honors the classicized reclining female nude. Like famous Renaissance #prototypes (such as Giorgione’s Venus) it uses the goddess of love to symbolize:#Feminine Divinity & Power: Venus represents the ultimate embodiment of female beauty passion and cosmic fertility #Harmonious Beauty: The slumbering figure represents a state of untroubled pure grace and undisturbed harmony #Awakening Passion: In art and poetry the sleeping Venus serves as a metaphor for hidden or dormant desire #waiting to be awakened

Paul Delvaux, The Sleeping Venus, 1944

Sleeping Venus. Běla Kolářová, 1964.

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Venus and Cupid (Sleeping Venus) by Artemisia Gentileschi (1630)

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François Boucher (French, 1703-1770) Vénus endormie, c.1740 Musée d’État des Beaux-Arts Pouchkine, Moscou Exposition L'Empire des sens, musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris

Her hand the thigh's tense surface leaves, Falling inward. Not even sleep Dare invalidate the deep, Universal pleasure sex Must unto itself annex— Even the stillest sleep; at peace, More profound with rest's increase, She enjoys the good Of delicious womanhood.

Giorgione, Sleeping Venus (c. 1510). Oil on canvas. 108 x 175 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Dresden x Field, Michael. "The Sleeping Venus", Sight and Song, 1892. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane.

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Sleeping Venus, Giorgione, 1510

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