Velázquez's Rokeby Venus
c. 1647–51 · Work
The only surviving female nude by Velázquez, painted in an Inquisition-ruled Spain: Venus reclines with her back to us, her face blurred in Cupid's mirror. A suffragette slashed it in 1914.
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