Word: urbino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Titian was Venus and the Lute Player. Lord Duveen, after buying it from the third Earl of Leicester in 1932, lent it to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition and to Venice's great Titian exhibition where it hung with the famed Venus of Urbino (TIME...
...Paris and from Venice, Giorgione's The Tempest and Mantegna's Saint George. Benito Mussolini accepted but one rebuff, from the Vatican, which held to its policy that the fine museums in Vatican City may not lend their paintings. He even sent Titian's Venus of Urbino from Florence's Uffizi, although a gap had already been left for it on the walls of Venice's great show of Titians (TIME, May 13). A little before the Paris show ends at the end of July the Urbino Venus will go to Venice. By last week...
...earliest, most famed of composopraphs. the Venus of Urbino has the head of the wealthy, potent Duchess of Urbino attached to the body of a honey skinned Venetian strumpet. "The position of the left hand," wrote Mark Twain, "is one of the most brazen pieces of impudicity I have ever looked upon...
Venice assembled 100 Titians last week, badly hampered by the fact that neither Madrid nor London would lend. Florence's pride, the lecherous Venus of Urbino* has been promised, but will not reach Venice until July...