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Venus At A Mirror By Paul Rubens
In his “Venus at a Mirror” Paul Rubens presents the nude beauty of the goddess of Love, Venus. The artist portrays the goddess of love from a back view, seated in the center of his composition. An adolescent cupid is presented in the left foreground, holding a mirror with the reflection of Venus’ face on its surface, while a dark-skinned, exotic handmaid fills the upper right of the painting fondling the golden hair of the Venus. The three figures form a lunette that emphasizes the mirror that frames Venus face like a portrait. The viewer follows this lunette once his attention has been caught by the nude female body and then the eyes move from the handmaid to the female body again and the adolescent cupid; this lunette underlines the mirror
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