Painting #A16 - The Sleeping Venus

The Sleeping Venus
- Giorgione (c.1477-1510, Italian) in c.1510
- oil on canvas (109 × 175 cm)
- Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden)

The Old Woman (aka Cal Tempo)
- Giorgione in c.1508-1510
- oil on canvas (68 x 59 cm)
- Gallerie dell'Accademia (Venice)

They lived in two different worlds.

The Tempest
- Giorgione (c.1477–1510, Italian)
- oil on canvas (83 × 73 cm) c.1508
- Gallerie dell'Accademia (Venice)

(X-rays of the painting have revealed that in the place of the man, Giorgione originally painted another female nude.)


In western painting, the short-lived and talented Giorgione was the first to paint on canvas; the first to paint laid-down naked female, the first to pay importance to landscape; and the first to paint meaningless/無厘頭.