At her feet is a pendant figure--in this case, a slumbering lapdog.
At her feet is a pendant figure--in this case, a slumbering lapdog. Behind her, a simple drape serves both to place her figure emphatically in the foreground and to press a vista into the background at the right half of the picture. In the vista, two servants bend over a chest. Deriving its title from the Duke who purchased it, FTP, identify this influential painting of a reclining female nude completed in 1538 by Titian.
At her feet is a pendant figure--in this case, a slumbering lapdog.
{Venus of Urbino}