Venus von Urbino (nach Tizian),

1866

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

119,8 x 169,9 cm

Displayed

Sammlung Schack Saal 11

Department

19. Jahrhundert

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

11428

Acquisition

1866 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München

Citation

Franz von Lenbach, Venus von Urbino (nach Tizian), 1866, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/Qm45Mj94No (Last updated on 19.06.2023)

Titian painted this ‘donna nuda’ for Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. The aura of eroticism exuded by the young woman has traditionally led her to be identified as Venus, although the picture contains no attributes associated exclusively with that goddess. ‘Why are these forms eternal, whereas the moderns rarely produce anything more than beautiful nude models?’, asked Jacob Burckhardt in 1855. ‘Because’, he answered, ‘the motif and the moment and the light and the colour and the composition all originated and developed in Titian’s mind and spirit. Anything created in that way is eternal.’