Art: The Renaissance's Big Men on Canvas

Veronese, Venus With a Mirror (Venus at Her Toilet), mid-1580s
Veronese knew and admired Titian's Venus with a Mirror. Here he offers a rear view variation, with the mirror, as in Tintoretto's picture, hinting at the full frontal view that we can't quite see. Fur-lined gowns like the one Venus wears here were sometimes associated with courtesans. Likewise the pearls in her upswept braid. By Venetian law, only respectably married aristocratic women could wear pearl necklaces, so courtesans experimented freely with threading them through their hair.

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