Bowdoin College Museum of Art - There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art

There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art

TITIAN (Italian, 1488/90–1576), Venus of Urbino, 1538, oil on canvas, 46.85 x 65 in. (119 x 165 cm), The Uffizi. Artwork in the public domain.

Painting of a white European, nude young woman lying on a bed with crumpled sheets gazing out at the viewer while hiding her pubis with her proper left hand and holding a bunch of roses in her proper right. A sleeping dog lies at the food of the bed. The young woman is situated in an elegant room with two maids searching in a painted chest in the far background

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

Bowdoin College Museum of Art