Rokeby Venus
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painting by Diego Velázquez
Key facts
- Artist
- Diego Velázquez
- Year
- c. 1647-1651
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Movement
- Spanish Golden Age
- Dimensions
- 122 cm × 177 cm (48 in × 70 in)
- Location
- National Gallery , London
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- painting
- Material used
- canvas
- Creator
- Diego Velázquez
- Collection
- National Gallery
- Location
- National Gallery
- Image
- Diego Velázquez - Rokeby Venus.jpg
- Height
- 122.5
- Width
- 175
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- catalog code
- 105
- inspired by
- Venus with a Mirror
- Commons category
- Venus del espejo (Velazquez)
- inception
- 1644-00-00
- inventory number
- NG2057
- title
- Rokeby Venus
- copyright status
- public domain
- depicts Iconclass notation
- 92C452
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Encyclopedic overview
The Borghese Hermaphrodite, an ancient Roman copy, excavated c. 1608–1620, of a Hellenistic original, now in the Louvre. When in Rome Velázquez ordered a bronze cast of the work for Madrid.
The Rokeby Venus (/ˈroʊkbi/ ROHK-bee; also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid and, in Spanish, La Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. Completed between 1647 and 1651, and probably painted during the artist's visit to Italy, the work depicts the goddess Venus in a sensual pose, lying on a bed with her back facing the viewer, and looking into a mirror held by the Roman god of physical love, her son Cupid. The painting is in the National Gallery, London.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rokeby Venus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.