# Venus and Cupid [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BORDONE, Paris]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 94 x 143 cm ## Commentary Many of Paris Bordone's early works consist of paintings half-length anonymous beautiful women, in the tradition of Giorgione and Palma Vecchio, as well as of Titian; but by the 1540s he had expanded his repertoire to include full-length mythological subjects, usually comprising prominent female nudes. The reclining nude figure of Venus had been a favourite subject in Venetian painting since the early years of the sixteenth century. Bordone's painting belongs to this tradition. ## Related artworks - [Allegory \(Venus, Flora, Mars and Cupid\)]() - [Allegory with Lovers]() - [Annunciation]() - [Bathsheba Bathing]() - [Madonna and Child with Saints]() - [Nude]() - [Portrait of a Bearded Man]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of a Young Woman]() - [Portrait of Nikolaus Körbler]() - [Portrait of Thomas Stachel]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()