VENUS ANTE EL ESPEJO VELÁZQUEZ Y EL DESNUDO

From the 16th century onwards artists paid increasingly greater attention to the myth of Venus, converting it into a vehicle for praising female beauty and powers of seduction. In his book Andreas Prater reveals the immensely rich variety of themes and implicationsaesthetic, moral and even politicalof Velázquezs Venus, showing the iconographic precedents that make possible the interpretation of this fascinating and much-debated painting whose modern vicissitudes include an attack suffered in 1919 at the hands of an infuriated suffragette.