Painting Reviews: Sleeping Venus

 

Artemisia Gentileschi, 1593 - 1656

Italian painter, Baroque

Oil On Canvas, 1630

Virginia Museum Of Fine Art USA

Description

We're inside a room with a window with a generic landscape. In the middle on a blue bed is sleeping Venus, with a transparent veil, she is the goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility and prosperity, she is completely naked with a white skin who is contrast with the dark around her.

On her side there is her son Cupid, he is the God of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection.

He is fanning her not because it's hot, he is keeping pests away, in brief he is caring about his mother.