Sleeping venus is a painting by Giorgione, but he did not finish the painting till he died, then Titian help him finish the landscape and sky.This is the most succeful painting of Girogione. Walter Benjamin said that the earliest artworks originated in the service of a ritual-first the magical, then the religious kind.In this painting, Venus show the beauty of the nature but not include any religion. Venus is sleeping in the nature scenery let her body become gentle and make she become a part of the nature. This painting represents the vitality of body and purity of heart. The curves of landscape imitate the woman's body and it is let the human's body back to the natural. The sheets were painted by sliver but not the warm tone. Venus raise her right arm and put her left hand on her groin, there is the Underlying erotic implications.
It is the act of concealment, Venus covering her genitals, that makes the painting erotic. Read what Barthes says about the difference between the pornographic and the erotic in his book "Camera Lucida".
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