RENI, Guido
(b. 1575, Calvenzano, d. 1642, Bologna)

The Toilet of Venus

1621-23
Oil on canvas, 282 x 206 cm
National Gallery, London

This painting was commissioned by Ferdinando Gonzaga, the sixth duke of Mantua. He intended to decorate rooms in the Palazzo Ducale. The pendant of the painting, the Judgment of Paris, seems to be lost.




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