UFFIZI, Titian-Venus Of Urbino_Room D22

The artistic importance in the 16th century of Tiziano Vecellio, known in English as Titian, is represented in the Uffizi by a magnificent series of paintings, mostly related to his youth and early adulthood.

Among the many portraits, a genre in which Titian excelled due to the vitality he was able to imprint in his characters, is the beautiful Flora, blonde and buxom, representing his ideal of beauty.

There are also works that testify to his connection with the ducal court of Urbino, such as the portraits of Francesco Maria della Rovere and his wife Eleonora Gonzaga, but above all the extraordinary Venus of Urbino, completed in 1538.

The painting was commissioned from Titian by Eleonora Gonzaga's son, Guidobaldo II della Rovere, who probably wanted to remind his wife, married when she was only ten years old, of her conjugal duties, including fidelity....