Venus of Urbino by Titian, 1538
Nobody actually knows who she is. She gets called Venus by tradition, from what I can find, but there's no story attached — just a young woman on a bed in a grand house, a sleeping dog, and two maids in the back digging through a chest like it's any other afternoon. It sat finished for years before anyone bought it, apparently.
Erisava: The whole room's dark and she's lit up like a lamp. And looking right at me. What's your take?
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