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Venus Anadyomene (Greek - literally Venus rising from the sea), is a c.
1520 oil painting by
Titian, depicting
Venus (identified by the shell bottom left - she was said to have been born from a shell) rising from the sea and wringing her hair, either after bathing or after her birth. The shell is smaller than usual in birth of Venus scenes (such as
Botticelli's), and is likely just an identifier rather than a sure sign that this is a birth of Venus scene.
The
voluptuousness of the Venus presented, and her sideways glance, also owe much to the
Crouching Venus and
Cnidian Venus types of antique sculpure. The wringing of her hair is a direct imitation of
Apelles's lost masterwork of the same title (in which the goddess was also washing her hair - a fact mentioned in Pliny's
Natural History), deliberately included by Titian to prove that he could rival the art of antiquity.
The painting is in exceptionally fine condition. It was once owned by
Christina of Sweden, and later became part of the collection of the
6th Duke of Sutherland, who loaned it (with 26 other paintings) to the
National Galleries of Scotland in
1945. On his death in
2000, it was acquired from
his son (who said the family had wanted the painting to stay exactly where it was), for more than £11m in
2003, with the aid of the
National Arts Collection Fund (with a contribution from the
Wolfson Foundation), £7.6m from the
Heritage Lottery Fund, and £2.5m from the
Scottish Executive. To facilitate the sale, £2.4m of the picture's value was offset against
inheritance tax. The market value has been estimated at £20m. After the sale, the 7th Duke said "To all intents and purposes nothing has changed, except the painting will now belong to the nation." Its Accession no. is NG 2751.
It soon afterwards formed the centrepiece of an exhibition in 2004 and the anniversary exhibition "Saved!" for the National Art Collections Fund.
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