 The use of an external landscape to frame a nude is innovative; but in addition, to add to her mystery, she is shrouded in sleep, spirited away from accessibility to any conscious expression.It is recorded by Michiel that Giorgione left this piece unfinished and that the landscape, with a Cupid which subsequent restoration has removed, were completed after his death by Titian.The picture is the prototype of Titian's own "Venus of Urbino" and of many more by other painters of the school; but none of them attained the fame of the first exemplar.