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To look fixedly (at something).

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-[[Image:Sleeping Venus (Giorgione).jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Sleeping Venus (Giorgione)|Sleeping Venus]]'' (c. [[1510]]) [[Giorgione]]]]
-[[Image:Venus (Titian).jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Venus of Urbino|Venus of Urbino]] ([[1538]]) by [[Titian]]]]
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+To [[look]] fixedly (at something).
-The difference is in their [[female gaze|gaze]], [[Giorgione's Venus]] looks away with her eyes closed, [[Titian's Venus]], painted 28 years later, [[staring|looks the spectator straight in the eye]].
-The [[locale]] is different too. [[Giorgione's Venus]] is set in a [[pastoral]] environment, [[Titian's Venus]] is in a house.
-[[Giorgione's Venus]] conjures a mythical being which never really wears any clothes because she lives in a fictional universe, [[Titian's Venus]] is your girlfriend, or the model you get intimate with or the call girl who has received you.
-Both are [[female nude]]s but with regards to the differences enumerated above art critics label the first kind [[Venus]] and the second [[Nini]]. [[Idealization]] vs. [[homeliness]]. [[Remote]]ness vs. [[proximity]]. [[Hard-to-get]] vs. [[available]].
-[[Sleeping Venus (Giorgione) |Venus (Giorgione)]] vs. [[Venus of Urbino|Venus of Urbino]] ([[1538]]) by [[Titian]]
-[[Nini]] ([[Renoir]]) or [[Nana]] vs. [[Venus]].
-:As Renoir said, "The nude woman, whether she emerges from the waves of the sea,or from her own bed, is Venus, or Nini, and one's imagination cannot conceive anything better" (quoted in Pach 70).
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