Titian · 1538
Venus of Urbino
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Titian's sensuous reclining nude — a Venetian woman gazing directly at the viewer, dog at her feet, maids in the background folding linens. The painting that set the template for centuries of reclining nudes.
Up to 15.6 × 11 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Venus of Urbino
A young woman lies on a rumpled white sheet in a Venetian bedroom and looks at you as if you have just walked in. A small dog sleeps at her feet. Behind her, two maids dig through a wedding chest for something to wear. Titian painted it in 1538 for the Duke of Urbino, and it is in the Uffizi in Florence. Whether it is a goddess or a bride or a courtesan has been argued about ever since, and Titian probably meant it to be all three. It is the reclining nude that every later one, Manet's most of all, had to answer.
On a wall, this is a warm, golden painting. The dominant colors are ivory skin against white linen, a deep green curtain, and the amber and crimson of the room behind, with a slice of evening sky in the window. It suits a bedroom above all, and it also works in a dressing room, a bathroom with space, or a study, in classic, Italianate, or richly layered interiors. Our source image supports the Mini at 11.4 × 8 in and the Petite at 15.6 × 11 in, so this is a piece for a nightstand wall, a vanity, or a gallery grouping rather than a full wall on its own. The Petite is the one to choose if it will hang alone.
Hang it with Manet's Olympia and you have the most famous conversation in art. Botticelli's The Birth of Venus is the Florentine goddess fifty years earlier, and Ingres's La Grande Odalisque is the French reply three centuries later. More from Titian.
Printed in our studio from a public-domain photograph of the Uffizi canvas, with the warm, low-lit tones of the original preserved.
Titian
Tiziano Vecellio, Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting, he was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.
All Titian prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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