Venus and Cupid with a lute-player, by Titian

An image of Venus and Cupid with a lute-player. Tiziano Vecellio (Titian, Italian, 1489/90-1576). Oil on canvas, height 150.5 cm, width 196.8 cm, 1555-1565. Venetian School.

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Venus and Cupid with a lute-player. Tiziano Vecellio (Titian, Italian, 1489/90-1576). Oil on canvas, height 150.5 cm, width 196.8 cm, 1555-1565. Venetian School.

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Accession Number: 129
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal length: 105
Camera: NIKON D800
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 770 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 153.70kB
Exposure time: 4/10
ISO Speed: 800
Fnumber: 8/1
Captured: 2014:11:07 10:17:55

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16th Century Aphrodite beauty bed blonde Cupid curtains divan female female nude goddess gods Italian Late Renaissance lutanist lute lying lying down music musical instruments musician mythological mythology nude oil on canvas painting pearl earrings pearls playing an instrument pleasure putti putto reclining recumbent Renaissance repose reposing sensuous Titian Tiziano Vecellio Venetian School Venus Venus and Cupid woman

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