The Rokeby Venus
ROKEBY VENUS
Here we have the painting of Velázquez from the 7 centuries. The painting is called the Rokeby Venus, also the Venus del mirall in Spanish, or The Toilet of Venus. The first name, Rokeby Venus, comes from where this painting had been kept at first, at the Rokeby Museum. Nowadays, it is in the National Gallery.
In this painting, as you can see, there are: the Venus that relines on a bed and the Cupid holding a mirror.
Venus is looking at the mirror, we can see the face looking at us, it could mean she was looking at the viewer “the one is looking at her”. Then, we can see that the body of this woman is older than the face. This could mean beauty isn’t always the same. By the time passes the beauty goes. The light of this painting has the focus in the middle, where Venus is.
Today, the only painting of a nude woman by Velázquez is this one. He painted more than one but the only one we kept, that is in the National Gallery as I said, is The Rokeby Venus. We think that he painted this one when he made his trip at Italy.
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