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Venus and Cupid with a lute-player, by Titian

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An image of Venus and Cupid with a lute-player. Tiziano Vecellio (Titian, Italian, 1489/90-1576). Oil on canvas, height 150.5 cm, width 196.8 cm, 1555-1565. Venetian School.

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Venus and Cupid with a lute-player. Tiziano Vecellio (Titian, Italian, 1489/90-1576). Oil on canvas, height 150.5 cm, width 196.8 cm, 1555-1565. Venetian School.

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  • Accession Number: 129
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/8.0
  • Focal length: 105
  • Camera: NIKON D800
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 770 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 153.70kB
  • Exposure time: 4/10
  • ISO Speed: 800
  • Fnumber: 8/1
  • Captured: 2014:11:07 10:17:55

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16th Century Aphrodite beauty bed blonde Cupid curtains divan female female nude goddess gods Italian Late Renaissance lutanist lute lying lying down music musical instruments musician mythological mythology nude oil on canvas painting pearl earrings pearls playing an instrument pleasure putti putto reclining recumbent Renaissance repose reposing sensuous Titian Tiziano Vecellio Venetian School Venus Venus and Cupid woman

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