[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG).https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/158784/fullSleeping Venus with Cupid in Front of the MirrorVenus, auf einem Ruhebett schlafend1826145 × 206 cm
Oil on canvas25191
Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder’s painting of Venus can be seen here for the first time since the removal of the black surface that had concealed Cupid in the background for over 180 years. A green curtain is drawn back to show Venus, the Roman goddess of love, sleeping naked on a mattress. Her back can be seen reflected in the mirror. Viewers thus take on the role of secret observers giving the scene voyeuristic undertones.
Cupid, the son of Venus, seems to be filling his quiver with arrows, about to slip away unnoticed—a motif found both in the visual arts and literature since the Renaissance.
Artists have used depictions of Venus to define ideals of female beauty since the early modern period. In the case of Lampi’s Venus, this is literally highlighted by the addition of the word “ideal” in the title when the work was first shown at the Vienna academy in 1828.Painting123654238319Upper Belvedereimage/jpegCC-BY-SA 4.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/158784/fullimage/jpegIn CopyrightFoto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/158785/fullimage/jpegIn CopyrightFoto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/158786/fullhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-8319/manifest