Image essay #5
Titians The Venus of Urbino is light in the front with a dark background. There is a woman and a child standing in a back ground that draw you in. You wonder what they are doing, the woman looks ashamed and the girl looks as though she is vomiting. Yet the woman in the front looks calm and relaxed. The woman in the background looks like a very important person. And there is a lot of texture in the cloth hanging behind the main woman that has a very light but defined texture. Venus is the name of the goddess of love, which is why I believe this woman looks erotic in a gentle way. It’s as though the painting is a taboo narrative on sex and the then taboo view of sex before marriage.