For 10 points, identify this Venetian painter of the Venus of Urbino.
This artist painted St. Mark Enthroned and The Descent of the Holy Ghost within the Santa Maria della Salute, a building near his home town. He was commissioned by Philip II to produce at least two paintings of a reclining nude seduced by a golden shower in his Danae series. One of his works shows a god leading some revelers while on a chariot drawn by two cheetahs, while another shows two depictions of Aphrodite leaning on a stone sarcophagus. Besides Bacchus and Ariadne and Sacred and Profane Love, this artist painted a puppy curled up at the feet of a reclining nude in his best-known work. For 10 points, identify this Venetian painter of the Venus of Urbino.
This artist painted St. Mark Enthroned and The Descent of the Holy Ghost within the Santa Maria della Salute, a building near his home town.
Titian [or Tiziano Vecelli]