Hi,

There is a famous painting and I can't remember who painted it. In the picture a nude woman lying on a bed faces us while a man playing a lute/ mandolin faces the wall.

The back story to the painting is that the painter was the lover of the woman he was painting. Unfortunately she had another lover, the musician, that the painter was jealous of.

The is supposed to represent the point of view that painting is ultimately better than music.

If anyone knows who painted this painting could you please let me know? It's driving me crazy!

Thanks!

M

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Edit: I'm sorry, I thought you were asking for help naming your own painting... I didn't read the post clearly enough.

I believe the painting you are referring to was done by Titian, called Venus and the Lute Player, though I may be wrong.


People often ask, "What is the world coming to?" - I simply ask, "What is the world?"

The painting I'm thinking of is definitely a play on the painting "Venus and the Lute Player."

Do you know of any paintings related to "Venus and the Lute Player"?

Thanks so much for your help

M

This work [Venus and the Lute Player] is the last of a series of four celebrated paintings by Titian. The two earliest of the group, representing Venus and an organ player (Museo del Prado, Madrid, and Gemäldegalerie, Berlin), date about 1548–55. "Venus and a Lute Player" is a late work executed about 1565–70 with studio assistance. A somewhat earlier version of the composition is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The subject of the paintings has been thought to relate to Neoplatonic ideas about whether beauty is better apprehended through sight or through sound, but it may just as well signify the way music inspires love. From 1718 until 1931 the present painting was owned by the Earls of Leicester, Holkham Hall, Norfolk.

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