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	Lisa Rosenmeier - House of Love
		On Tuesday, 10 March 1914 Velasquez' painting the Rokeby Venus was the victim of one of the most dramatic art actions in modern times.The work of art depicts Velasquez' interpretation of Venus and is considered by art experts to represent one of the world's most beautiful women.
		The Rokeby Venus was among the most treasured works in Western patriarchal culture, and it came to stand as a symbol of the suffragettes' fighting spirit.
		Venus is an image of the perfectly pure race - she is young, beautiful, healthy and fertile - and immeasurably valuable.
	www.houseoflove.dk /18.4.b.asp (1063 words)

	Venus at her Mirror (The Rokeby Venus) by VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
		The Toilet of Venus, called the 'Rokeby Venus' after Rokeby Hall in Yorkshire where it hung in the nineteenth century, is the only surviving picture of this kind by Velázquez - one other, now lost, is recorded - and remained unique in Spain until Goya depicted the Naked Maja, which was probably inspired by it.
		Painted either just before or during Velázquez's second visit to Italy in 1648-52, the Venus was recorded in 1651 in the collection of the young son of Philip IV's prime minister, famous both for his womanising and his patronage of art.
		Venus reflects on her beauty, reflected in the mirror; since we can dimly see her face, we know that ours can be seen by her, and she may be thought to reflect on the effect her beauty has on us.
	www.wga.hu /html/v/velazque/07/0714vela.html (630 words)

	Take a girl like Venus Spectator, The - Find Articles
		Botticelli's `Birth of Venus', for example, is not there, but a Botticcelli workshop standing figure of Venus, circa 1486-88 is - remarkably close in looks to the scallop-born version, she has the same gentle sway of the hips and covers herself modestly with a lavish length of hair.
		Not surprisingly, given her family background (born of the sea from the foam produced by the bollocks of the castrated Uranus, according to the Greek poet Hesiod), Venus was not a nice girl.
		The iconographic theme of Venus looking at herself in a mirror was particularly pleasing to the French, as we see in the section `The Toilet of Venus' with works ranging from two 16th-century Fontainebleau school paintings, both elegant exercises in upperclass nudity, to Simon Vouet and Charles Mellin's languid, somewhat melancholy work of 1626.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200012/ai_n8907225 (758 words)

	Silverbulletday's Dam, Rokeby Rose, Dead \| bloodhorse.com
		Rokeby Rose, dam of two-time champion Silverbulletday, was euthanized Feb. 1 at Jeffry Morris' Highclere near Lexington.
		Her dam, Rokeby Venus (by Quadrangle), is a half-sister to Mellon's 1969 Horse of the Year Arts and Letters.
		Rokeby Rose will be cremated and her remains will be buried at Highclere near the grave of Killaloe, dam of prominent stallion Fappiano.
	www.bloodhorse.com /articleindex/article.asp?id=13949 (230 words)

	Rokeby Venus
		Venus' is first recorded in June 1651 in the collection of the...
		Venus, falsly, as I consider, attributed to Velázquez, and purchased for the National Gallery at a cost of £45000, was mutilated by Mary...
		Venus, is a painting by Diego Velázquez in the National Gallery, London...
	www.cordah.co.uk /rokeby_venus.html (354 words)

	Venus at her Mirror (The Rokeby Venus) by VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
		The Rokeby Venus is widely regarded, along with Titian's Venus of Urbino, as one of the most beautiful and significant portrayals of Venus in the history of western painting.
		Venus is presented in a sensually erotic pose, and yet she seems chaste and is so completely merged with the overall image that she cannot be touched.
		This may in fact indicate the underlying meaning of the picture: it is not intended as a specific female nude, nor even as a portrayal of Venus, but as an image of self-absorbed beauty.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/v/velazque/1651-60/01venus.html (343 words)

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		It is perhaps not surprising that the Rokeby Venus should be a target of feminist complaint; indeed, Richardson could scarcely have chosen a more apt canvas for a protest whose paramount concerns were gender, mirroring, and mimesis.
		One of Velázquez's best-known works, the Rokeby Venus depicts the Roman goddess of love and beauty as a nude woman, reclining on her right side with her back to the viewer, her pale skin offset by the red drapery of the background and the dark fabric beneath her.
		Thus Mary Richardson's attack on the Rokeby Venus, meant to distinguish life from art, in fact rendered the painting more perfectly representative of "woman," whose fate in patriarchal ideology is always to bear the mark of the cut, to be figured by disfigurement.
	www.genders.org /g38/g38_rohy.txt (8338 words)

	The Rokeby Venus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Venus del Espejo, also known as The Rokeby Venus, is a painting by Diego Velázquez in the National Gallery, London.
		Another explanation is that the face is not aged, merely out focus, a sharper face would distract our immediate attention from the form of Venus.
		La Venus del Espejo is first recorded in an inventory in 1651, belonging to Gaspar Méndez de Haro (1629-1687).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Rokeby_Venus (486 words)

	The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Venus, the goddess of love, was the most beautiful of the goddesses, and was regarded as a personification of female beauty.
		'The Rokeby Venus' is first recorded in June 1651 in the collection of the Marqués del Carpio, son of the First Minister of Spain.
		The painting is known as 'The Rokeby Venus' because it was in the Morritt Collection at Rokeby Hall in Yorkshire before its acquisition by the Gallery.
	www.nationalgallery.org.uk /cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=ng2057 (217 words)

	New Statesman - The battle for Venus
		The Rokeby Venus came on to the market two years later, in autumn 1905, at a time when the National Gallery was without a director.
		The famous Rokeby Velazquez, unique in subject and supreme in quality, the possession of which was one of the glories of England, is now exhibited for sale at Messrs Agnew.
		The purchase was announced on 24 January 1906 and, on 14 March, the Rokeby Venus was presented to the National Gallery.
	www.newstatesman.com /200311100029 (1239 words)

	Amazon.com: "The Rokeby Venus": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Diego Velzquez, The Toilette of Venus ("The Rokeby Venus").
		VELAZQUEZ- The Rokeby Venus CARAVAGGIO -The Supper at Emmaus ROUGHER -Pan and Syrinx IMPRESSIONISM & BEYOND MONET- Gare St....
		Rokeby Venus Painted n Rome to replace a lost Venetian painting, the Rokeby Venus (left) is the only nude by Diego Velzquez (1599- 1660), court painter to Spain's Philip IV.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/The-Rokeby-Venus (499 words)

	Essays Papers -- Rokeby Venus
		The “Rokeby” part came into effect, because the painting was originally displayed in the Morritt Collection at Rokeby Hall in Yorkshire, before being moved to its current home in the National Gallery.
		He painted “The Rokeby Venus” between 1647 and 1651, and was his only nude portrait, as well as the first one in Spain, at that time.
		You hereby irrevocably waive any objection that you may have to the venue of any such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that any such proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=43794 (1683 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Christie Davies admires the great Jewish artist Velazquez and particularly his ...
		It is a picture of a bottom, as Venus lying on her couch tucks away her knee and her shoulder away from us to emphasise her best feature for posterity.
		In 1905 the Rokeby Venus was bought by the National Gallery in London to stop it being sent to Berlin.
		On 10th March 1914 a terrorist feminist and suffragette, Mary "Slasher" Richardson attacked Venus' famous buttocks with a cleaver thrusting her chopper deep into them and inflicting severe damage on the painting.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/001303.php (3130 words)

	Francesco Goya - The Clothed and The Naked Maja
		During the Napoleonic wars ‘The Rokeby Venus’, by Velasquez (see above, on the left) belonged to the Minister Godoy, Prime Minister and effective ruler of Spain.
		It was probably the inspiration for Goya's paintings of the naked and clothed Majas, which might have been made for Godoy and certainly belonged to him.
		The Rokeby Venus is shown at the National Gallery, London.
	www.artonstamps.org /goya.htm (931 words)

	ShanghART-Jin Weihong-Qing Shui / Clear Water: The Nudes of Jin Weihong
		Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, for example, is the Renaissance counterpart to the ancient Greek Venus de Milo.
		In Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, the naked female figure stands in perfectly balanced contraposto as she travels across the windy sea standing in a shell.
		The allure of this type of composition is that it draws the viewer's eyes across the canvas in such a way as to allow the viewer to gaze at the figure's nudity without being confronted with a returned glance that would force the observer into a conversation with the sitter.
	www.shanghart.com /texts/jwh0.htm (2055 words)

	Venus - Shopping.com
		Posters prints framed art Toilet of Venus ('the Rokeby Venus') Diego...
		Posters prints framed art Venus with a Mirror Fontainebleau School...
		Posters prints framed art Venus with a Horn, from Laussel in the...
	www.shopping.com /xCC-Venus-all_posters (299 words)

	Venus reflected (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nicholas Penny mentions the possibility voiced by some recent art historians that the Rokeby Venus is admiring the reflection of her own fanny.
		Intrigued by this, the fifteen year old in me collected together a pencil, a ruler, some tracing paper, and a book on seventeenth-century Spanish art, and spent a happy five minutes doing voyeuristic vector algebra.
		This is placed so that she would only be able to see us, and so that anything lower would be obscured to her.
	www.bath.ac.uk /~ensab/Csp/venus.html (242 words)

	TIME.com: Hacker Anceaux -- Mar. 2, 1931 -- Page 1
		It was known as the Rokeby Venus because it had hung for generations in Rokeby Hall, Yorkshire, was purchased by the nation in 1905 for $225,000.
		March 1914 was the height of the suffraget agitation in Britain: ladies were chaining themselves to the railings of the Houses of Parliament, shouting themselves hoarse on street corners, smashing windows on Bond Street.
		Up to the Rokeby Venus walked she, suddenly produced a hatchet from her muff, slashed the picture across and across.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,741146,00.html (757 words)

	Actors wanted > On "The Rokeby Venus"
		The film will be screened at the London Film School end of term projections and for two weeks at The National Gallery.
		The idea of the film is based on "The Rokeby Venus" by Diego Velazquez.
		The film will also be digitalized, compresed and linked to "The Rokeby Venus" image on the National Gallery web page.
	www.starnow.com /Actors-wanted/actors_wanted_103.htm (338 words)

	Amazon.com: Venus at Her Mirror: Velazquez and the Art of Nude Painting (Art & Design): Books: Andreas Prater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The seventeenth century saw a tremendous thematic and technical development in the realm of painting as artists experimented with realism and anatomical exactitude, and gave free expression to themes of sensuality.
		Nowhere is this more apparent than in Velazquez’ Venus at Her Mirror, also known as The Rokeby Venus.
		Velazquez’s self-admiring Venus is compared to her depictions in other well-known works by earlier artists, including da Vinci, Giorgione, and Titian, as well as in works by later artists such as Manet and Cabanel, and into the modern world of advertising.
	www.amazon.com /Venus-Her-Mirror-Velazquez-Painting/dp/3791327836 (884 words)

	A celebration at the Hayward Gallery: a century of rescued art Contemporary Review - Find Articles
		The first gallery welcomes us with the best-known works the Art Fund helped to acquire from Velasquez's Rokeby Venus in 1906 to Canova's Three Graces in 1994.
		Their intertwined arms and their shoulders are less fragile than those of The Rokeby Venus (National Gallery) alongside them.
		The Rokeby Venus was bought for [pounds sterling]45,000.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1656_284/ai_n6141790 (1013 words)

	Velazquez: Venus at Her Mirror ("The Rokeby Venus") (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Velazquez: Venus at Her Mirror ("The Rokeby Venus")
		Use the Image Viewer to study the much larger full-sized image.
		The Image Viewer allows you to resize the image to fit your screen, display as a thumbnail, zoom in up to 200%, or even change the background color.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/V/velazquez/velazquez_venus.jpg.html (47 words)

	AbeBooks: Search Results - Rokeby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He only returned to Italy once again in the late 1640s, where he painted his famous portrait of Pope Innocent X and his only female nude, the "Rokeby Venus".
		The frontispiece is a photogravure of a drawing, by Mr Herbert Railton, of Roseby Hall situated on the Tees, near Barnard Castle, the scene of his poem of Rokeby.
		Lay of the last minstrel; Marmion; Lady of the lake; Rokeby; Lord of the Isles; Harold the Dauntless; Vision of Don Roderick; Field of Waterloo; Ballads from the German; imitations of ancient ballads; Miscellaneous forms.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Rokeby (1866 words)

	Genders OnLine Journal - Presenting innovative theories in art, literature, history, music, TV and film.
		[1] On March 10, 1914, the National Gallery in London witnessed the vandalism of Diego Velázquez's painting "The Toilet of Venus," also called the Rokeby Venus. According to the London Times, a "prominent militant woman suffragist," Mary Richardson, entered the gallery during regular visiting hours, broke the glass covering the work with a small
		In Mena's hall of mirrors, fragmented images seem never to coalesce under the pressure of narrative closure. The detective's "solution" thus depends on a certain blindness: not a refusal to see what is before him, but a refusal to acknowledge the inadequacy of his vision and to see how much he cannot see.
		[24] Refusing to reify femininity in a single portrait of "woman," "The Vine-Leaf" becomes the textual equivalent of the Rokeby Venus, whose mirror reveals an eerie disjunction between the female body and its reflection.
	www.genders.org /g38/g38_rohy.html (1025 words)

	Venus at/with/in her mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		To see those in more detail: Photo Bucket of Venuses in mirrors (and sorry they're going backwards from the list below, which is the order I wish they were in...)
		To know more about these images: Velasquez Venus at her Mirror (The Rokeby Venus), 1649-51
		photo version of Velasquez' Venus at her Mirror by Andre Maier of New York
	sandradodd.com /mirrormotif (116 words)

	Queen of the Cabbage Patch - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		What I had originally intended to do was a stunning nude that would be in the style of the Velazquez Rokeby Venus
		Artist George Condo's painting entitled "Dreams and Nightmares of the Queen" is shown in the Wrong Gallery at the Tate Modern in London
		But the outrage would certainly have been much louder if Condo had stuck with Plan A. "What I had originally intended to do was a stunning nude that would be in the style of the Velazquez Rokeby Venus.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2006/10/24/1161455700457.html (500 words)

	The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus') by Velazquez at FulcrumGallery.com
		The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus') by Velazquez at FulcrumGallery.com
		These prints rival any detailed reproduction from their originals and are geared towards the discerning eye of the particular art collector.
		Title: The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus')
	www.fulcrumgallery.com /print_36245__Velazquez_The_Toilet_of_Venus.aspx (139 words)

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