Rokeby Venus
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- The Rokeby Venus is connected to radical feminism via an incident of art vandalism. In 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson slashed the painting at the National Gallery, London
The Rokeby Venus (also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid, or La Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, in the National Gallery, London. Completed between 1647 and 1651, and probably painted during the artist's visit to Italy, the work depicts the goddess Venus in a sensually erotic pose, lying on a bed and looking into a mirror held by the god of love and sex, her son Cupid.
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