Venus lies with her back to us on dark sheets while Cupid holds up a mirror. It is Velázquez's only surviving female nude, a rare subject in Spain, where the Inquisition policed such images. Named after Rokeby Park in Yorkshire, where it hung in the 19th century, it was slashed by the suffragette Mary Richardson in 1914 and then restored.
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The face in the mirror is blurred and far too large to be a true reflection of her. Pink silk ribbons loop over the mirror's frame.
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