Sleeping Venus
The story
A nude Venus sleeps on white drapery in an open Italian landscape, eyes closed, body shaped by the long curving horizon. Painted around 1508-10 — Giorgione's pose became the model for centuries of reclining nudes.
- Artist
- Giorgione
- Year
- 1509
- Period
- Renaissance
- Where it lives
- Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
